buckminsterfullerene

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• The Nobel prize was awarded in 1996 to their discoverers, who had formally named the molecule buckminsterfullerene for its resemblance to the geodesic domes of architect R. Buckminster Fuller.
• Smalley won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of buckminsterfullerene, fondly known as the "buckyball" in industry circles. The Speculist: Richard Smalley: Visionary and Pioneer
• University of Western Ontario astronomer Jan Cami holds a model of the C60 molecule buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, which he and his team have discovered in space using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Toronto Sun
• Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle
• To understand how the carbon atoms in buckminsterfullerene are connected to each other, we need only recall the pattern on the surface of a soccer ball, or European football. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech
• In 1985, a group of chemists discovered a new class of soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules that they dubbed "buckminsterfullerene," or "buckyballs. Undefined
• Tom LetourneauCumberland, R. I.Chemists Get the CreditYour June 30 story "Bucky's Very Large Dome" on Buckminster Fuller stated that "physicists discovered the soccer-ball-shaped carbon C60 molecule" and named it "buckminsterfullerene" for its resemblance to Fuller's geodesic domes. Learning More About a Private Lady
• In 1999 atoms of an extremely heavy isotope of carbon, known as “buckminsterfullerene” were shown to be capable of entanglement: they proved to have wave properties as well as corpuscular properties. Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES
• The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes. Nano Tech Wire
• Buckyballs, of buckminsterfullerene, are soccer-ball-shaped assemblages of 60 carbon atoms.