Harold Kroto
Harold Kroto · Science & Medicine
Nobel laureate in chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs)
1939, Wisbech, England — 2016, Lewes, England
United Kingdom · United States
Harold Kroto is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nobel laureate in chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs)
Kroto co-discovered fullerenes — hollow, cage-like carbon molecules such as the 60-atom 'buckyball' — in 1985, opening the field of carbon nanoscience and sharing the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He worked at the University of Sussex and later Florida State University and became a tireless advocate for science education. He was born Harold Krotoschiner into a Jewish family; his father had fled Berlin as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
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Nobel laureate in chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry
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