Harold Walter Kroto:
Harold Walter Kroto is an English chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 7, 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Kroto is an English chemist who shares the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl, Jr. for the discovery of fullerenes. Fullerenes are a group of carbon allotropes that form spheres, tubes or planes. The spherical fullerene, C60, is called a buckyball or buckminster fullerene. The tubes are called bucky tubes or carbon nanotubes. The planes are called graphene.
