The 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been won by Harold W.
Kroto, Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery in
1985 of a new allotrope of carbon, in which the atoms are arranged in
closed shells. The new form was found to have the structure of a
truncated icosahedron, and was named Buckminsterfullerene, after the
architect Buckminster Fuller who designed geodesic domes in the
1960's. For more click here.
Courtesy: Dr. Peter Unwin
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