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Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene (with Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex). Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was the son of a Methodist Minister.[1] He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. Curl received a B.A. from Rice Institute in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation. Curl often attended the German table at Hanszen College at Rice University. However, he is more known in the residential college life at Rice University for being the first master of Lovett College.

Robert Curl

Born Fields

August 23, 1933 Alice, Texas, United States Chemistry

Institutions Rice University, Harvard University Alma mater Rice, University of California, Berkeley, PhD

1. ^ Robert F. Curl, Jr (http://www.nndb.com/people /798/000100498/)

Known for Notable awards

fullerene Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Cross-cultural ambassador at Sorbonne University UNESCO Club

Nobel Prize Website (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/index.html) Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (http://nano.rice.edu) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Curl&oldid=588582293" Categories: 1933 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people People from Alice, Texas American physical chemists American Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Chemistry Rice University alumni Rice University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Members of the Optical Society Spectroscopists Alexander von Humboldt Fellows This page was last modified on 31 December 2013 at 22:23. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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