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Also Known As Richard Erret Smalley
Born June 6, 1943 • Akron • Ohio
Died October 28, 2005 (aged 62) • Houston • Texas
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study C60 • fullerene
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Walter Kohn
American physicist
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Robert Curl
American chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
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Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
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Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
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Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
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Paul J. Flory
American chemist
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Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey
American chemist

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