In 1996, Robert F Curl was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fullerene family of carbon molecules. The identification of spherical carbon clusters opened a new field of molecular materials.
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Robert F Curl
Nobel Prize history for Robert F Curl based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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