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Harry Kroto
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
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science · English chemist (1939–2016) · chemist · university teacher · scientist · also Harry Kroto, Harold Walter Krotoschiner, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, Harold Kroto, H. W. Kroto, Kroto
Born 7 October 1939 · Died 30 April 2016 · Q157250
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2016· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Kroto signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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2014· 1 entry
Kroto spoke at the Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands, delivering a lecture about his life in science, chemistry, and design
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers (2011).
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A convention "dedicated to scientific inquiry and critical thinking" organized by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in association with Skeptical Inquirer magazine and the Center for Inquiry
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2010· 1 entry
By the designation of a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society at the Richard E
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2009· 1 entry
Kroto led the development of a second science education initiative, Geoset
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2008· 1 entry
Kroto was critical of Michael Reiss for directing the teaching of creationism alongside evolution
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2004· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (2004).
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Kroto left the University of Sussex to take up a new position as Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University
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Was appointed to the Francis Eppes Professorship in the chemistry department at Florida State University, carrying out research in nanoscience and nanotechnology
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2003· 2 entries
Was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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Prior to the Blair/Bush invasion of Iraq on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Kroto initiated and organised the publication of a letter to be signed by a dozen UK Nobel Laureates and published in The
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2002· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002–2004).
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2001· 2 entries
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Awarded Michael Faraday Prize (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded IET Kelvin Lecture (1998).
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1997· 2 entries
Won Carbon Medal (1997).
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Won Dalton Medal (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Jointly set up the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity that created high quality science films including lectures and interviews with Nobel Laureates, discussion programmes, careers and teaching resources for
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1994).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Hasselt University (1993).
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Awarded Longstaff Prize (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1992).
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1985· 3 entries
Published “C60: Buckminsterfullerene” in Nature — cited 14,796 times.
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On the basis of the Sussex studies and the stellar discoveries, laboratory experiments (with co-workers James R
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The C60 discovery caused Kroto to shift the focus of his research from spectroscopy in order to probe the consequences of the C60 structural concept (and prove it correct) and to exploit the implications for chemistry an
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Tilden Prize (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
“What Does a Woman Need to Know?”
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1968· 1 entry
“Technological Innovation in Britain”
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1967· 1 entry
Kroto began teaching and research at the University of Sussex in England
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1963· 1 entry
Kroto married Margaret Henrietta Hunter, also a student of the University of Sheffield at the time
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1958· 1 entry
Where he obtained a first-class honours BSc degree in Chemistry (1961) and a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy (1964)
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1955· 1 entry
Harold's father shortened the family name to Kroto
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-10-07.
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1872· 1 entry
“Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens”
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