Awards & Winners

Robert Curl

Date of Birth 23-August-1933
Place of Birth Alice
(Jim Wells County, Texas)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Chemist
Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene. Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was the son of a Methodist Minister. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. Curl received a B.A. from Rice Institute in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation. Curl often attended the German table at Hanszen College at Rice University. However, he is more known in the residential college life at Rice University for being the first master of Lovett College.

Awards by Robert Curl

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Curl.

1996


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their discovery of fullerenes)