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 ...

AMONG Nobel laureates, Richard Smalley was unusual. He discovered something that is quite easy to understand, though far too small to see. Until 1985, scientists only knew two forms of pure carbon ...

Rice University professor Richard Smalley, who leads a group researching the frontiers of nanoscience and nanotechnology. photographed Friday morning, January 31, 2003, with projections of nanotubes.

Nobel laureate Richard Smalley (search), a Rice University professor who helped discover buckyballs, the soccer ball-shaped form of carbon, and championed the field of nanotechnology, has died at ...

Dr. Richard Smalley, who died Friday, October 28, 2005, was presented the Hope College Distinguished Alumni Award in May, 2005. His declining heath prevented him for attending in person. He sent the ...

The death of Richard Smalley is, of course, deeply mourned by anyone who follows nanotechnology or anyone who met the extraordinary chemist. He was one of those rare scientists, especially rare ...