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Kroto

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Kro·to  (krt), Sir Harold Walter Born 1939.
British chemist who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize for discovering fullerenes.
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Noun1.Kroto - British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
Harold Kroto, Harold W. Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kroto


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Kroto of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week.
Buckyballs bounce into Nobel history by Wu, Corinna / Science News
Kroto received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with colleagues Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, Jr.
Nobel Prize Winner Sir Harold W. Kroto Joins NaturalNano's Scientific ... by Business Wire
Kroto of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
Big fullerene clusters form an onion shape by Pennisi, Elizabeth / Science News
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