What year did Richard Smalley win the Nobel Prize?
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In 1996, Richard Smalley was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, for their discovery of fullerenes. Fullerenes are carbon molecules that form hollow spheres, ellipsoids, and tubes. They have unique properties that make them promising for use in a variety of applications, including electronics, optics, and medicine.
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