Richard Smalley

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American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)

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In 2013 war resulted in 31,000 deaths, down from 72,000 deaths in 1990. citation In 2003, Richard Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing humanity for the next fifty years. Source: Internet

C 60 was discovered in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley. Source: Internet

Reception seeAlso Drexler's work on nanotechnology was criticized as naive by Nobel Prize winner Richard Smalley in a 2001 Scientific American article. Source: Internet

Richard Smalley argued that mechanosynthesis are impossible due to the difficulties in mechanically manipulating individual molecules. Source: Internet

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