Hitchcock LECTURE SERIES

Science, a Round Peg in a Square World

Harold Kroto, Royal Society Research Professor and 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

February 25, 1998
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

About Harold Kroto

Sir Harold Kroto is an English chemist and the 1996 Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry. He currently serves as Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. He researches the high-resolution electronic spectra of free radicals produced by flash photolysis (the breaking of chemical bonds by light), as well as carbon dioxide and the molecules that contain chains of carbon atoms with numerous multiple bonds. Kroto's Nobel Prize was based on his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs." He is presently researching nanoscience and nanotechnology.