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Robert Curl

1933 - 2022

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Curl is the 177th most popular chemist (up from 195th in 2019), the 900th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,210th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Robert Curl ranks 177 out of 602. Before him are Richard F. Heck, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, and Max Perutz. After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Felix Hoffmann, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz.

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Among people born in 1933, Robert Curl ranks 39. Before him are Ronald Evans, Kim Novak, Steven Weinberg, Quincy Jones, Edmund Phelps, and Álvaro Siza Vieira. After him are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jerry Falwell, Costa-Gavras, Joan Collins, Ilia II of Georgia, and Rik Van Looy. Among people deceased in 2022, Robert Curl ranks 42. Before him are Dietrich Mateschitz, Peter Brook, Ray Liotta, Wolfgang Petersen, Bruno Latour, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. After him are Sidney Altman, William Hurt, Mylène Demongeot, Louise Fletcher, Kakuichi Mimura, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Curl ranks 900 out of 20,380. Before him are Dick Van Dyke (1925), Frank Abagnale (1948), Sidney Lumet (1924), Harry Belafonte (1927), Patrick Leahy (1940), and Stanley Cohen (1922). After him are Raquel Welch (1940), Jennifer Aniston (1969), Ron Perlman (1950), John Lewis (1940), F. Murray Abraham (1939), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert Curl ranks 42. Before him are Paul D. Boyer (1918), Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Richard F. Heck (1931), William Standish Knowles (1917), and Alan J. Heeger (1936). After him are Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Arthur Kornberg (1918), and Wallace Carothers (1896).

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