Nobel Prize winner Sir Harry Kroto is one of our most famous graduates. Throughout his life, he remained a good friend of the University, and continued to inspire young people when he visited ...

The chemist Harold Kroto, whose co-discovery of the carbon-60 molecule played an important role in the development of carbon-based nanotechnology, died on 30 April aged 76. Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel ...

Tallahassee has lost one of its brightest and most brilliant thinkers. Florida State’s Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor Sir Harold "Harry" Kroto died Saturday. He was 76 and had been battling a ...

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At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, 1996 laureate Harold Kroto told the assembled students that science as a way of evaluating what is true is, for him, its most important quality. Steve ...

It seems that 2016 is utterly relentless in taking away notable figures. This Saturday saw the death of Sir Harry Kroto, one of Britain’s small but distinguished band of Nobel Laureates, who shared ...

Sir Harry Kroto, who has died aged 76, was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1996 for his part in the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes, also known as “buckyballs” – carbon atoms found in the ...