Sussex University, Brighton, England, UK. September 2004. Portrait of Sir Harry Kroto, one of the team of chemists who won the Nobel Prize in 1996 for discovering buckyballs, or Buckfullerine, carbon atoms in the form of a ball. He is holding the model of a buckyball he made. Sir Harry died on 30 April 2016. Credit: Roger Bamber/Alamy Live News


Sussex University, Brighton, England, UK. September 2004. Portrait of Sir Harry Kroto, one of the team of chemists who won the Nobel Prize in 1996 for discovering buckyballs, or Buckfullerine, carbon atoms in the form of a ball. He is holding the model of a buckyball he made. Sir Harry died on 30 April 2016.


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