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Richard Smalley

1943 - 2005

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Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Smalley is the 254th most popular chemist (up from 261st in 2019), the 1,561st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,626th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Richard Smalley ranks 254 out of 602. Before him are Mario J. Molina, Kary Mullis, Emil Abderhalden, Jacques Dubochet, Ryōji Noyori, and Johan August Arfwedson. After him are Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Mária Telkes, Ida Noddack, Alfred G. Gilman, Vladimir Markovnikov, and Stephanie Kwolek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard Smalley ranks 86. Before him are Holland Taylor, John Denver, Jerry Bruckheimer, Arthur Ashe, Yohji Yamamoto, and Michael Palin. After him are Barbara Bouchet, Chantal Mouffe, Oskar Lafontaine, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Mohammed Badie, and Wanda Rutkiewicz. Among people deceased in 2005, Richard Smalley ranks 48. Before him are Mary Jackson, Brother Roger, John Fowles, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Robert Wise, and Barbara Bel Geddes. After him are Rosemary Kennedy, Peter Benenson, Consuelo Velázquez, Ahmed Deedat, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Robert Sheckley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 1,561 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Rockwell (1894), John Zorn (1953), Norman Lloyd (1914), John Backus (1924), Linda Harrison (1945), and Tess Gerritsen (1953). After him are Claudia Goldin (1946), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), David Duchovny (1960), Linda McCartney (1941), Edmund Kemper (1948), and Mitt Romney (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 58. Before him are Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Stanley Miller (1930), James B. Conant (1893), Walter Gilbert (1932), and Kary Mullis (1944). After him are Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Martin Rodbell (1925), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918).

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