Ethnically, I come from a mixed family. My father was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia shortly after the turn of the century, and my mother was the daughter of a Lutheran minister whose parents were from what is now Slovakia. Mostly, however, I grew up in a medical family. My father’s father…

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800’s. One of my great grandfathers had…

Swedish Utopia En ö där allting bara klarnar. Här kan man stå på bevisens grund. Den enda väg här finns är den framkomliga vägen. Buskarna bara dignar under alla svaren. Här växer Riktiga Förmodans träd med sina sedan gammalt utredda grenar. Det storstilat raka Förståelsens träd vid källan som heter Å På Så Vis. Ju…

Harry Kroto Answers Questions on the NobelPrize YouTube Channel The fourth in a series of Q&A sessions with Nobel Laureates on YouTube features Harry Kroto, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for discovering that carbon atoms can assemble into soccer-ball-shaped structures of molecules, known as fullerenes or buckyballs. In the videos below…

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Interview transcript Thank you Professor for coming to this interview with us. Professor Curl, I believe I read something about you, that you got your first chemistry box when you were quite a small child? Robert F. Curl Jr.: That’s right. Was that how it all started? Robert F. Curl Jr.: Yes,…

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 Dawn of the Fullerenes: Experiment and Conjecture Pdf 992 kB

Robert F. Curl delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1996. Robert F. Curl Jr.’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley and I are deeply grateful for the honors you have given us today. The…

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I was the kid with the funny name in my form. That is one of the earliest memories I have of school (except for being forced to finish school dinners). Other kids had typical Lancashire names such as Chadderton, Entwistle, Fairhurst, Higginbottom, Mottershead and Thistlethwaite though I must admit that there were the odd Smith,…