Papers of Richard E. Smalley

Collection

Identifier: 2005-028-2004-026

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1046051~S6

The collection consists of laboratory notebooks, office files reprint files and files of news clippings.

Dates

Creation: 1973-2004

Creator

Smalley, Richard E. (Person)

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Biographical sketch

Richard E. Smalley was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943. He attended Hope College and the University of Michigan and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of a third elemental form of carbon, called a buckminsterfullerene. This was an important early discovery in the history of nanotechnology. Smalley taught at Rice University for most of his career and founded the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He died in Houston, Texas on October 28 2005.