Richard Smalley

Richard Smalley was one of the scientific pioneers in nanotechnology research. In 1996 he won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry "with fellow Rice chemist Robert Curl and British chemist Sir Harold Kroto for the discovery of buckminsterfullerence, or 'buckyballs,' a new form of carbon."

He died on October 28, 2005 from cancer.

Other SourceWatch resources

• Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
• House Science Committee Hearing on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
• Environmental Defense Dances With DuPont On Nanotechnology
• ETC Group
• James A. Baker III Institute
• molecular assembler
• National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Nanotechnology PR
• Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
• [Rice University Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology]]

External links

• "Richard E. Smalley – Autobiography", NobelPrize.org, accessed December 2005.
• "Nanotech pioneer, Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62", Baker Institute Energy Forum, accessed December 2005.

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