Who shared the Nobel Prize with Kroto?
Robert Curl and Richard Smalley
James Watson and Francis Crick
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr
Answer
Robert Curl and Richard Smalley shared the Nobel Prize with Harold Kroto for their discovery of fullerenes, a new form of carbon. Fullerenes are molecules made up of carbon atoms arranged in a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. The most common fullerene is buckminsterfullerene, which has 60 carbon atoms and is shaped like a soccer ball. Fullerenes have a wide range of potential applications, including in electronics, optics, and medicine.
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