Harry Kroto received a Nobel Prize in chemistry for work that helped spur a global wave of research in nanotechnology, the study of matter on a tiny scale. The British chemist suspected he would ...

Sir Harold Kroto Got His Nobel Prize For Discovering Buckeyballs. But Art Was His First Love He shared chemistry's top prize in 1996 for finding buckyballs, and had Lou Gehrig's disease when he died.

On 30th April 2016, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner, Sir Harry Kroto, passed away. Well known for his work with nanocarbon materials, he contributed to both science and society. Here, I take a ...

Kroto is survived by his wife, Margaret, whom he met while studying at the University of Sheffield in England during the early ‘60s.They were married for more than 50 years and had two sons.

Harold Kroto: 1939–2016. (Courtesy: Florida State University) The chemist Harold Kroto, whose co-discovery of the carbon-60 molecule played an important role in the development of carbon-based ...

Harold Kroto shared a Nobel in 1996 for finding a new type of carbon molecule that ignited the field of nanotechnology. Find a passion where — with hard work — you can be the best, he advises.

Kroto says residents resort to grabbing coal from the beach to heat their wood stoves despite the health risks. Breathing coal fumes can cause lung damage and lead to long-term health impacts.

H arry Kroto, Nobel laureate chemist, discoverer of the “bucky-ball” carbon molecule, and passionate defender of young science students, died on Saturday.* Kroto was my champion. When I was 17 ...

“In retrospect,” Kroto writes, “…I seem to have been fascinated by various peculiar aspects of carbon chemistry for much of my research career.” Kroto wanted to investigate the origins of the long ...

Kroto shared the Nobel Prize in 1996 for discovering the buckyballs. To prove buckyballs are the stuff in interstellar space, you'd want to see if they absorb light in a lab in the same way they ...