Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسی한국어中文日本語
Harry Kroto

File:Harry_Kroto_1c389_8471.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ157250· pop 63· linked from 550 articles

Harry Kroto

Sign in to save

Also known as Harold Walter Krotoschiner, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, Harold Kroto, H. W. Kroto

British chemist (1939-2016)

AI overview

Harry Kroto was a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for discovering a new form of carbon called buckminsterfullerene, a spherical molecule also known as a "buckyball." His discovery opened up an entirely new field of chemistry and materials science with potential applications in medicine, electronics, and nanotechnology.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
13

Top works

  • Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites
  • Atom Resolved Surface Reactions
  • Biological Interactions with Surface Charge in Biomaterials
  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Series Package
  • Nonoparticles

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1927-03-01
Active to
2023-04-25
calypsocontemporary folkeasy listeningfolkfolk popmento

Discography

DiscogsStream

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
4

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Harry+Kroto">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Harry Kroto

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. C60: Buckminsterfullerene

    · 1985 · cited 14,785x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,699x

  3. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,654x

  4. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,180x

  5. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic

    · 2014 · cited 8,598x

via Crossref · CC0

Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1996

    “for their discovery of fullerenes”

    Shared · 1/3 portion

NobelPrize.org →

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Harry
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Wisbech
Place of death
Lewes
Occupation
scientist
Employer
University of Florida
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Noble title
Knight Bachelor
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Field of work
fullerene
Official website
www.kroto.info
Image
Hkroto.jpg
Residence
Westhoughton
Show 9 more facts
member of
Academy of Sciences of Turin
Commons category
Harold Kroto
date of birth
1939-10-07
Erdős number
4
date of death
2016-04-30
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Harold Walter Kroto
cause of death
ALS
interested in
chemistry
Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

Kroto ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Prior to this, he spent approximately 40 years at the University of Sussex.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harry Kroto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (3)

Available in 61 languages

Show 42 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0