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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

"for their discovery of fullerenes"
Robert F. Curl Jr. Sir Harold W. Kroto Richard E. Smalley
Robert F. Curl Jr. Sir Harold W. Kroto Richard E. Smalley
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA United Kingdom USA
Rice University
Houston, TX, USA		 University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom		 Rice University
Houston, TX, USA
b. 1933 b. 1939 b. 1943
d. 2005
 
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