Richard Smalley, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was the co-creator of the miniature spheres of carbon called buckyballs and who is widely considered the father of nanotechnology, died Friday ...

Richard Smalley, the Rice University chemistry professor who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering a new spherical form of carbon and championed the potential of nanotechnology to create a more ...

Scientist Richard Smalley helped discover a new form of carbon, known as "buckyballs," for which he shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. His research helped launch the field of nanotechnology.

RICHARD E. SMALLEY Gene and Norman Hackerman professer of chemistry and professor of physics, Rice University, Houston. Richard Smalley believes that "science is a crucial enterprise, not just to keep ...

Smalley was tackling the problem at his own house. After trying unsuccessfully for hours to write a program to generate a solution on his home computer, he started to cut hexagons out of paper.

Two hours later, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel Prize for chemistry would go to Robert Curl Jr., Richard Smalley, and Harold Kroto “for changing the way we think in ...

Richard Errett Smalley was born in June 1943 in Akron, Ohio. He was the youngest of four and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Smalley later described it as a happy childhood with a stable and ...