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Richard Smalley
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Person

Richard Smalley

1943 – 2005 · aged 62

American chemist (1943–2005)

Born
6 Jun 1943 · Akron
Died
28 Oct 2005 · Houston

Life timeline

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

Showing 71 years
  1. 6 Jun 1943BornBorn in Akron
  2. 1991AwardErnest Orlando Lawrence Award
  3. 1991AwardIrving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
  4. 1992AwardJames C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
  5. 1992AwardWelch Award in Chemistry
  6. 1993AwardJohn Scott Award
  7. 1993AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
  8. 1993AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  9. 1994AwardEPS Europhysics Prize
  10. 1996AwardFranklin Medal
  11. 1996AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  12. 1997AwardCarbon Medal
  13. 1998AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II
  14. 28 Oct 2005DiedDied in Houston

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1943 – 2005).

  1. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  3. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  5. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  6. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  8. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  9. 1956Suez Crisis
  10. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  12. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  16. 1968Prague Spring
  17. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  18. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  19. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  20. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  22. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  23. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  24. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  25. 1985Schengen Agreement
  26. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  27. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  28. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  30. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  32. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  33. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  34. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  35. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. 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.

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