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August 23, 1933
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July 3, 2022
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
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The discovery of fullerenes
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Robert Curl, also known as Robert Floyd Curl Jr., is a chemist born on August 23, 1933, in Alice, Texas. He is a United States citizen and is known for the discovery of fullerenes and the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene.
Curl was educated at several institutions including William Adams High School, Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Rice University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1996, Robert Curl received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work.
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