The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.
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Prof Robert F. Curl Jr Rice University, Houston TX, USA
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Prof Sir Harold W. Kroto University of Sussex Brighton, England
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Prof Richard E. Smalley Rice University, Houston TX, USA