Sir John Cornforth (‘Kappa’): Some Personal Recollections
Harold Kroto AA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. Email: kroto@chem.fsu.edu
Sir Harold Kroto is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University carrying out research in cluster chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1996, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for discovering the fullerenes which resulted in a new and unique field of chemistry. His awards include the Copley Medal as well as the Blackett and Faraday Lectureships of the Royal Society, the Tilden Lectureship and Longstaff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Italgas Prize for Innovation and the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy ‘Science pour l'Art’ prize. He has some 40 honorary degrees. His Global Educational Outreach for SET (GEOSET streaming from www.geoset.info) project evolved from his earlier TV/Internet Vega Science Trust initiative which has some 300 lectures, interviews, discussions, workshops, and career programmes archived and streaming from www.vega.org.uk |
Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(4) 697-698 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH14601
Submitted: 2 October 2014 Accepted: 7 October 2014 Published: 11 November 2014
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