Richard Smalley

Richard Errett Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley
Born	(1943-06-06)June 6, 1943 Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Died	October 28, 2005(2005-10-28) (aged 62) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	Hope College University of Michigan Princeton University
Known for	buckminsterfullerene
Awards	Irving Langmuir Award (1991) E. O. Lawrence Award (1991) EPS Europhysics Prize (1994) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996)
Scientific career
Institutions	Rice University University of Chicago
Thesis	The lower electronic states of 1,3,5 symtriazine (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Elliot R. Bernstein

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.