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Richard Smalley: 1943-2005 Eminent nanotechnologist Richard Smalley has died in Houston in the US at the age of 62. Smalley received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene molecules, or buckyballs, together with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto. He died on 28 October following a long battle with cancer.
Smalley discovered buckyballs while working at Rice University in the US in 1985.
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