Richard Smalley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Smalley

American chemist

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1943

Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 28-Oct-2005

Profession: scientist, professor, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was 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.