Sir Harry (BSc Chemistry 1961, PhD 1964) shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for discovering a new form of carbon, known as "buckminsterfullerene", which ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

The world knows Harry Kroto as a Nobel Prize winner, recognised for the discovery of a third form of carbon (alongside diamond and graphite) which he named ‘Buckminsterfullerene’. However, Harry came ...