Richard Smalley

Richard Smalley is Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for discovery of fullerene (with Robert Curl, also Professor of Chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, Professor at the University of Sussex). Born 1943 Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, USA Education: B.S. degree from University of Michigan (1965)

           Ph.D from Princeton (1973)

Notes: Currently working on Nanotechnology.

Brief Autobiography (http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1996/smalley-autobio)