Who was one of Richard Smalley's co-recipients of the Nobel Prize?
Robert Curl
Linus Pauling
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Answer
Robert Curl, along with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for their discovery of fullerenes, a new class of carbon molecules. Curl and Smalley, both from Rice University, played a crucial role in the experimental confirmation of the existence of fullerenes, which are hollow, cage-like structures made of carbon atoms. Their work opened up new avenues in nanotechnology and materials science.
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