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    Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in...
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    buckminsterfullerene had been produced. In 1985 their work was repeated by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean C. O'Brien, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley at...
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    materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl...
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    along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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    intentionally prepared in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University. Kroto, Curl and Smalley were awarded...
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    a nonprofit educational initiative founded by the Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto in 2006 to provide a “free resource of educational material”. Students...
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    structure, resembling a geodesic sphere, reminded its co-discoverer, Harold Kroto, of his visit to the pavilion at Expo 67. The structure influenced the...
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  • impact of the proposed work, 20 scientists, including 1996 Nobel laureate Harold Kroto, wrote a public letter to Times Higher Education condemning the requirement...
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    Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation, and Sharpless oxyamination. In 1985, Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes, a class of large...
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    'Science in a Complex World: Wonders, Prospects and Threats' 2003: Sir Harold Kroto – 'I think, therefore I am – a scientist' 2002: M. S. Swaminathan – 'Towards...
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    forms such as buckyballs and nanotubes. Their discoverers – Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley – received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996...
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    during World War I now helped him and others to leave Germany. Brigadier Harold Hartley, Sir William Jackson Pope and Frederick G. Donnan arranged for Haber...
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  • York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2016. Nicholas St. Fluer (4 May 2016). "Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize Winning Chemist, Is Dead at 76". The New York Times. Archived...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard...
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    fullerene (with the late Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex) J. Frank Dobie, award-winning author who...
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    of atoms, which would be later identified as "fullerenes." In 1985, Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex, working with James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien...
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    Labour Party was out of office, and this group became influential when Harold Wilson became leader of the Party. Blackett's ideas led directly to the...
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    Christopher Hitchens, psychologist Steven Pinker and Nobel laureates Sir Harold Kroto, James D. Watson, and Steven Weinberg have defended Dawkins's stance...
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  • conferences such as Beyond Belief and Atheist Alliance International. Harold Kroto (1939–2016): 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Ray Kurzweil (1948–):...
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  • from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010. "Harold Kroto – Autobiography from the Nobel foundation". Watson, James D.; Berry,...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard...
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  • John Howard Purnell Edward William Abel Anthony Ledwith Steven Ley Sir Harold Kroto Simon Campbell James Feast David Garner David Phillips Lesley Yellowlees...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard...
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    2010-12-06. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg". "Harold Kroto – Autobiography from the Nobel foundation". Murray (2009-10-13). Human...
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  • from the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2011. "Sir Harold Kroto - 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry". Research.msstate.edu. 2011. Archived...
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  • Peace, 1998 John Pople, Chemistry, 1998 John E. Walker, Chemistry, 1997 Harold Kroto, Chemistry, 1996 James A. Mirrlees, Economics, 1996 Joseph Rotblat, born...
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    Retrieved 15 October 2015. atheist who is moved by religion. Harold W. Kroto (1996). "Harold Kroto – Autobiography". Nobelprize.org, The Official Web Site...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard...
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    2002 (2002): Steven Victor Ley (1945–) 2002 (2002) – 2004 (2004): Sir Harold Kroto (1939–2016) 2004 (2004) – 2006 (2006): Simon Campbell (1941–) 2006 (2006) –...
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  • Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation, and Sharpless oxyamination. In 1985, Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes, a class of large...
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