Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalleywas the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 June 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.
We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.
Be a scientist, save the world.
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.