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    In Greek mythology, Krotos or Crotus (Ancient Greek: Κρότος) was the son of Pan and Eupheme. He dwelt on Mount Helicon and kept company of the Muses, whom...
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    Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in...
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    refers to Codiaeum variegatum. The generic name comes from the Greek κρότος (krótos), which means "tick" and refers to the shape of the seeds of certain species...
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  • The Kroto Innovation Centre is an innovation centre for small and medium enterprises at the University of Sheffield. The centre is collocated in the Nanoscience...
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    Nobel Laureate for his work on decomposition of ozone talking to Harry Kroto Nobel Laureate by the Vega Science Trust. National Pollutant Inventory –...
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    such as buckyballs and nanotubes. Their discoverers – Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley – received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. The...
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    materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was...
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    buckminsterfullerene had been produced. In 1985 their work was repeated by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean C. O'Brien, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley at Rice...
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    year. Second, fullerenes (buckyballs) were discovered in 1985 by Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley, and Robert Curl, who together won the 1996 Nobel Prize...
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    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...
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  • American History at the University of Sussex 15 June 2006 Carbon Harry Kroto, Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University Monica Grady, Professor...
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    and a daughter of Dryops, or Penelope Consort Syrinx, Echo, Pitys Children Silenus, Iynx, Krotos, Xanthus (out of Twelve) Equivalents Roman Faunus Inuus...
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    Christopher Hitchens, psychologist Steven Pinker and Nobel laureates Sir Harold Kroto, James D. Watson, and Steven Weinberg have defended Dawkins's stance on...
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    David Lee; Douglas Osheroff; Robert Coleman Richardson Robert Curl; Harry Kroto; Richard Smalley Peter C. Doherty; Rolf M. Zinkernagel Wisława Szymborska...
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  • August Krogh Physiology or Medicine 1920 University of Copenhagen Harry Kroto Chemistry 1996 University of Sussex Paul Krugman Economics 2008 Princeton...
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    Robert Fogel (Economics – 1993) Douglass North (Economics – 1993) Harry Kroto (Chemistry – 1996) William Vickrey (Economics – 1996) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji...
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    Interview—Video of Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen talking to Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto by the Vega Science Trust NASA's Earth Observatory article on Ozone International...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard Lovell...
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  • garden fertility Satyrs (Σάτυροι) / Satyress, rustic fertility spirits Krotos (Κρότος), a great hunter and musician who kept the company of the Muses...
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    astronomical research. While working at the University of Sussex, Harold Kroto won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl...
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    (2): 329–344. Bibcode:2012AMT.....5..329M. doi:10.5194/amt-5-329-2012. Kroto, H. W. (1975). Molecular Rotation Spectra. Wiley. ISBN 9780471508533. OCLC 793428...
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    prepared in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University. Kroto, Curl and Smalley were awarded...
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    countries. In Java, Indonesia the larvae and pupae of these ants are known as kroto and are harvested commercially for use as captive songbird food and as fishing...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard Lovell...
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    (1933–2022) American "for their discovery of fullerenes" Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016) British Richard E. Smalley (1943–2005) American 1997 Paul D...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard Lovell...
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    fluid (Brownian motion). John Stewart Bell created Bell's Theorem. Harold Kroto discovered buckminsterfullerene. Other 19th- and early 20th-century British...
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    Fuller's geodesic dome. The 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry was given to Kroto, Curl, and Smalley for their discovery of the fullerene. On July 12, 2004...
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    Crutzen / Mario Molina / F. Sherwood Rowland 1996: Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley 1997: Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian...
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    Blackett (1948) Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1966) Dorothy Hodgkin (1981) Sir Harold Kroto (1997) Sir Walter Bodmer (2002) Sir Roger Penrose (2005) Sir Bernard Lovell...
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