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Robert Curl

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Noun1.Robert Curl - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)


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The Nobel laureates who signed the letter include Kenneth Arrow and Finn Kydland (economics); Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Charles Townes (physics); Peter Agree, Robert Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Harold Kroto, Yuan Lee, John Polanyi, F Sherwood Rowland, Jens Skou and John Walker (chemistry); Paul Greengard, Roger Guillemin, François Jacob, Eric Kandel, Craig Mello, Richard Roberts, Phillip Sharp, Harold Varmus and Torsten Wiesel (physiology or medicine).
The 10 new people it has welcomed to its 3,000-strong global membership include Nobel Prize winners Robert Curl, Paul Berg (both for chemistry) Donald Glaser and Douglas Osheroff (both physics).
The discovery came after British chemist, Harry Kroto, and US scientists, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, tried to recreate the conditions thought to produce chains of carbon atoms in space.
 
 
 
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