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Harry Kroto

Scientist · born October 7, 1939 · died 2016

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Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

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  1. ~57Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1996
  2. ~65Received the Copley Medal2004

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