Robert Curl

Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Curl in 2009
Born	(1933-08-23)August 23, 1933 Alice, Texas, U.S.
Died	July 3, 2022(2022-07-03) (aged 88) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	Rice Institute, BS; University of California, Berkeley, PhD
Known for	The discovery of fullerenes
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Cross-cultural ambassador at Sorbonne University UNESCO Club
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Rice University, Harvard University
Thesis	Some spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties of molecules (1957)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Pitzer
Doctoral students	Lihong V. Wang James L. Kinsey

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.^[1] He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.