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Harry Kroto
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Person

Harry Kroto

1939 – 2016 · aged 77

British chemist (1939-2016)

Born
7 Oct 1939 · Wisbech
Died
30 Apr 2016 · Lewes

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 89 years
  1. 7 Oct 1939BornBorn in Wisbech
  2. 1981AwardTilden Prize
  3. 1992AwardJames C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
  4. 1993AwardHonorary doctorate of Hasselt University
  5. 1993AwardLongstaff Prize
  6. 1994AwardEPS Europhysics Prize
  7. 1996AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  8. 1997AwardCarbon Medal
  9. 1997AwardDalton Medal
  10. 1998AwardIET Kelvin Lecture
  11. 2001AwardMichael Faraday Prize
  12. 2002 – 2004RolePresident of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  13. 2004AwardCopley Medal
  14. 2011AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
  15. 30 Apr 2016DiedDied in Lewes

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1939 – 2016).

  1. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  2. 1939 – 1945World War II
  3. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  4. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  5. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  6. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  7. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  8. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  9. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  10. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  12. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  13. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  15. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  16. 1956Suez Crisis
  17. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  19. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  23. 1968Prague Spring
  24. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  25. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  26. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  27. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  29. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  30. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  31. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  32. 1985Schengen Agreement
  33. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  34. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  35. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  37. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  39. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan

Biography

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.

Kroto promoted science education and was a critic of religious faith.

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