奈米球的發現者---Sir Harry Kroto , 1996諾貝爾化學獎得主

   [Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS] in 1996 Professor Kroto was jointly awarded the Nobel Lauriate for chemistry with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, for the discovery of C60 [buckyballs], and later that year he received a Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. (In 1985 his experiment, designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in red giant stars, revealed the existence of Buckminsterfullerene)

Since 1990 he has been chairman of the editorial board of the Chemical Society Reviews. Currently he is researching Synthetic Fullerene Chemistry, Nanotubes and nanoparticles, Cluster beam studies [Generation of small fullerenes (C24, C28 etc...) by laser vaporisation], and Astrophysical studies monitoring of red giant stars in the search for C60 in space, at the Sussex Fullerene Research Centre | BIO.

Videos:

The Next Big Thing : Nanotechnology: Vega Science Trust program featuring panellists Sir Harry Kroto (Nobel Prize winner from Sussex University), Jim Gimzewski (leading nano-technologist from IBM), Peter Dobson (Professor at Oxford University) and panel regular Jacqui McGlade.

Buckminsterfullerene, C60, the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth: Vega Science Trust program featuring Sir Harold Kroto, Sussex University