Professor Richard E. Smalley at Rice University
(1943-2005)
1943: Born in Akron, Ohio on June
6
1976: PhD from Princeton,
Assistant Professor at Rice
Laser Vaporization Cluster
Beam
1984: Discovery of C60
1996:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kroto and Curl
1996: Bulk Production of
SWNTs
Then HiPco Process
2000: Testified for National
Nanotechnology Initiative
2000: Found Carbon Nanotechnology
Inc.
Application of Nanotechnology to
Energy Problem
2005: Died at 62 on October 28,
2005
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