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Harry Kroto

1939 - 2016

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Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards. Kroto ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Kroto is the 153rd most popular chemist (up from 162nd in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 694th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Chemist.

Harry Kroto is most famous for discovering a new form of carbon called buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs."

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Among chemists, Harry Kroto ranks 153 out of 602. Before him are Johann Rudolf Glauber, Glenn T. Seaborg, Sune Bergström, Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Hermann Kolbe. After him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Robert W. Holley, Paul D. Boyer, Feodor Lynen, Antoni Grabowski, and Katalin Karikó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harry Kroto ranks 28. Before him are Ralph Lauren, Karel Gott, Jean-Marie Lehn, Jackie Stewart, Romano Prodi, and Michèle Mercier. After him are Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Barbara Liskov, John Cleese, George Lazenby, Junko Tabei, and F. Murray Abraham. Among people deceased in 2016, Harry Kroto ranks 37. Before him are Anisa Makhlouf, Frank Sinatra Jr., Walter Scheel, Elie Wiesel, Jerome Bruner, and Kenny Baker. After him are Carrie Fisher, James Cronin, Gabriele Amorth, Alvin Toffler, Junko Tabei, and Andrzej Żuławski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Kroto ranks 555 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Read (1695), Pope Adrian IV (1100), James IV of Scotland (1473), Edmund I (921), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After him are Dave Murray (1956), Mordred (null), Harold Pinter (1930), Charlie Watts (1941), Harold Wilson (1916), and Niels Kaj Jerne (1911).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Harry Kroto ranks 20. Before him are Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Sanger (1918), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), and George Porter (1920). After him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), John E. Walker (1941), Derek Barton (1918), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), and Peter D. Mitchell (1920).

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