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	Research In Review at Florida State University
		Kroto spent most of last spring as a visiting professor on campus, giving a highly popular series of public lectures, visiting area schools to promote science education and teaching a graduate class on interstellar chemistry.
		Kroto's Nobel Prize was based on his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs." The extraordinary molecule consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged as a spheroid, in a pattern exactly matching the stitching on soccer balls.
		Kroto is the second Nobelist (with J. Robert Schrieffer of the National Magnetic Field Laboratory) now serving on the FSU faculty.
	www.rinr.fsu.edu /fall2004/departments/abstracts.html (2334 words)

	The Big Question
		Kroto described this as a “perfectly respectable theory” but declared that there is no evidence to support it and that it avoids addressing the fascinating problem of how primordial molecules flickered into life in the first place.
		Kroto continued: “so where did the DNA come from?” Despite much research, origin of life theorists had to admit defeat in moving from amino acids to proteins to DNA.
		The omission is apparent when Kroto speaks of the discovery of the structure of DNA as “the key to life itself”.
	www.biblicalcreation.org.uk /educational_issues/bcs136.html (1544 words)

	Sir Harry Kroto FRS - Chemical architecture
		Sir Harry Kroto was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for his distinguished contributions to the spectroscopy of novel and unstable molecules, the discovery of long carbon chain molecules in outer space and the detection and identification of C60 - the remarkable football carbon molecule.
		Sir Harry Kroto is well-known due to his role in the discovery and identification of a new form of carbon: C60 otherwise known as Buckminsterfullerene.
		Sir Harry has also set up the Vega Science Trust (http://www.vega.org.uk) as a platform to enable scientists to communicate directly to the public "without the filter of the media".
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=1527 (604 words)

	Chemistry in Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kroto's role as one of the founding fathers of the field was acknowledged in the 1996 New Year's Honours list, when he became one of only a handful of chemists of his generation to receive a knighthood.
		Today, Kroto's role in founding the now active fields of phosphoalkene and phosphoalkyne chemistry is generally unknown: "If you leave a field your contribution tends to be forgotten: few people remember exactly how the field was born", he says.
		Kroto likened such carbon chain molecules to "very bendy batons" which he imagined being tossed high into the air by a "microscopic quantum mechanical cheerleader".
	www.ul.ie /~childsp/CinA/issue50/csixty.html (2817 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Clever move
		Kroto has always been interested in graphics, and as a student won a newspaper competition to design a book jacket.
		Kroto would have left his mark on chemistry with both his creation of carbon/phosphorous double-bonds - "I recently saw a new chemistry textbook that said this was impossible some 25 years after I proved it was" - and the discovery of carbon chains in space.
		Kroto realises there's not a hope anyone will take these ideas seriously, but a Nobel prize gives you a certain licence to shoot your mouth off.
	education.guardian.co.uk /academicexperts/story/0,1392,1313867,00.html (1419 words)

	Society of Chemical Industry:
		Harry, like myself, received his early chemical education in that most delectable institution of chemistry in the 1960s in South Yorkshire -the Department of Chemistry of the University of Sheffield -though I didn't know him there as he was two or three years before me.
		Harry Kroto is another Sheffield chemist who has taken us on an equally fascinating journey though this time at the molecular level.
		As some/many of you already know, Harry Kroto through his research work discovered another arrangement of carbon atoms -a most beautiful form where 60 carbon atoms are arranged in a spherical fashion with the molecular formula C60.
	www.soci.org /SCI/general/2001/html/ge127.jsp (532 words)

	The Vega Science Trust - Freeview Video On The Web - The Buckyball Workshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Harry and Jonathan give a workshop at the University of Sussex to local school children and simultaneously videoconference with children at Leicester, Imperial, Cardiff, and Edinburgh universities.
		Harry and a huge hall full of school children build fullerenes, practise fullerene meditation, and have a great time discovering that science can be fun.
		Harry explores he worlds of chemistry, astronomy, algebra and architecture, and shows how they are all inextricably linked.
	www.civil.gla.ac.uk /~zhou/Essays/Journals/ScienceToPublic.htm (238 words)

	Nanotechnology and nanoscience Sir Harry Kroto
		Professor Kroto did not believe that Dr Drexler’s scenario of molecular manufacturing could be achieved, especially not if it was envisaged as building microscopic analogues on an atomic scale of everyday objects, such as cars.
		Professor Kroto thought that the only things that remotely fitted the scenario at present are enzymes and molecular complexes such as the ribosome, however, the type of manufacturing that adapted versions of these could do would take too long.
		Professor Kroto felt that the macro concept of machines had to be different to the nano concept.
	www.nanotec.org.uk /evidence/oralKrotoFRSProfHarry.htm (1516 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
		Harry Kroto was the compère for the above programme on channel 5 Tuesday evening of the 06/01/04 and I believe also that he was instrumental in compiling the material for what was an outstanding programme.
		Harry Kroto was looking at it from his own point of view as a chemist, i.e.
		Nothing, as far as I can see can exist or live without this all powerful energy, so when Harry Kroto explains an experiment in which he says the building blocks of life are created and infers that they are the beginning life, that is not true.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2184329 (839 words)

	The Wesleyan Argus - Nobel Prize-winner Kroto brings discovery to Wesleyan
		Professor Sir Harry Kroto spoke to introductory chemistry classes the morning before his lecture, stressing the importance of teenagers working in the sciences.
		During his lecture, Kroto referred to a clip of Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss) speaking to teenagers about how science classes would not help if students were planning on going on to other fields.
		Kroto's autobiography in the Nobel Prize website shows his love for teaching and his strong opinions on children exploring their own interests.
	www.wesleyanargus.com /article.php?article_id=1727 (724 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Sir Harry Kroto for Irish Times/RIA Lecture in Dublin
		Sir Harry Kroto's free public talk is organised jointly by the Royal Irish Academy, The Irish Times and the British Council.
		Kroto shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1996 with US scientists Robert Curl Jr and Richard Smalley for their discovery of and subsequent work on carbon 60, the spherical molecule with the most unusual name, buckminsterfullerene.
		Born in 1939 in Cambridgeshire, Sir Harry has worked in the US, Canada and Britain and is currently professor of chemistry at the University of Sussex.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=122476 (385 words)

	Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist To Speak At Carbon Conference
		Harry Kroto, a chemist whose work on Carbon 60 (commonly known as "Bucky Balls") won him a Noble Prize in 1996, will address the 25th American Carbon Society Conference (ACSC) at 9 a.m.
		Kroto, who is on the faculty of the University of Sussex, has been described as a scientific humorist.
		Kroto's major contribution to science was the discovery of carbon-chain molecules in space and then, with American scientists Richard Smalley and Robert Curl Jr., the discovery of Carbon 60, which has led to a new branch of chemistry related to carbon fiber and other carbon-based materials.
	www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2001/JULY2001/carbonconf.htm (348 words)

	Funding fears of Nobel-winning chemist
		SIR HARRY Kroto, a Sussex University chemist, was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry yesterday for his joint discovery of football-shaped molecules commonly known as buckyballs.
		However, Sir Harry has warned that Britain is unlikely to reap the commercial rewards because it has failed to capture any of the hundred or so patents that came in the wake of the discovery.
		Sir Harry and his colleagues obtained further evidence but another milestone came in 1990, when Donald Huffman of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and his colleague Wolfgang Krtschmer at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, mass produced carbon 60, confirming the hypothesis.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/10/nnob10.html (727 words)

	UniSA’s Science at the Lakes — it’s all in the chemistry
		And a visit by Professor Sir Harry Kroto — who was awarded the chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the largest symmetrical carbon containing molecule known to man, commonly called the “buckyball”, in the same year he was knighted — is just one of the many exciting events at this year’s event.
		In 1996 Professor Kroto was knighted for his contributions to the field of Chemistry and later that year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his co-discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene, affectionately known as the Buckyball.
		Sir Harry is an enthusiastic populariser of science, focusing on turning the young people of the world to the joys and value of science in general and in particular encouraging them to take up careers in science and technology.
	www.unisa.edu.au /news/2005/120805b.asp (781 words)

	Articles 57
		Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Harold Kroto is pictured unveiling the world's first 'Giant Buckyball' sculpture outside the Kroto Research Institute at the University on Wednesday 7 June 2006.
		Each of the 240 carbon atoms is represented by a stainless steel ball, all of which are connected by a geometric network of fl rods, representing the electrons of the chemical bonds that link the carbon atoms together.
		Harry Kroto, an alumnus of the University who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of this new form of carbon, explains: "As well as being visually attractive the sculpture illustrates some key scientific features of Fullerenes - which children love to call Buckyballs.
	www.shef.ac.uk /marcoms/eview/articles57/kroto.html (213 words)

	Science Show - 8/04/00: Sir Harry Kroto
		Sir Harry Kroto is a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who set out to be a graphic designer but went into science because his father thought he should have a proper job and because he was good at it.
		He believes that it's very important for young scientists to understand what science is about and to go into science for its own sake and to follow their research wherever it leads.
		For Harry Kroto his contribution to science was the discovery of carbon chain molecules in space and then, with American scientists Richard Smalley and Robert Curl Jnr, the discovery of C60 and a whole new branch of chemistry, for which they won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s117367.htm (118 words)

	Welcome To Harry Kroto's Personal Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		204 Holey fullerenes! A bis-lactone derivative of [70]fullerene with an 11-atom orifice; P.R. Birkett, A.G. Avent, A.D. Darwish, H.W. Kroto, R. Taylor and D.R.M. Walton, J.
		214 Polyhydrogenation of [60]- and [70]fullerenes with Zn/HCl and Zn/DCl; A.D. Darwish, H.W. Kroto, R. Taylor and D.R.M. Walton, Synthetic Mets., 77, 303-307 (1996).
		221 Chlorination and arylation of [60]- and [70]fullerenes; P.R. Birkett, A.D. Darwish, A.G. Avent, H.W. Kroto, R. Taylor and D.R.M. Walton, Proc.
	bfg.hpc.susx.ac.uk /~kroto/General_info/PublicationList3.html (3235 words)

	Administration: Packed Programme Of Events For University Of Leicester`s 80th Anniversary
		"Harry Kroto won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of a new molecular form of carbon.
		Professor Sir Harry Kroto was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of a new form of carbon molecule.
		Professor Kroto's reputation as an entertaining speaker has meant that there is considerable demand for tickets for this Faculty of Science Lecture, which is aimed at A-level students as well as the general public.
	www.le.ac.uk /ua/pr/press/nobelprizewinner.html (480 words)

	THE CREATIVE SCIENCE CENTRE
		In December 1996 I was lucky to be part of the Sussex group which accompanied Harry Kroto to Sweden for the awarding of the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
		Sir Harry Kroto, Steve Kroto, Margaret Kroto, Dr David Walton, Carole Walton, Prof.
		Harry and I looked at each other a bit puzzled trying to work out why Bernd was so excited.
	www.creative-science.org.uk /hwknobel.html (2006 words)

	Prof Harold Kroto : Chemistry : University of Sussex
		Prof Harold Kroto : Chemistry : University of Sussex
		Harold Kroto received a BSc (Chemistry, 1961) and a PhD (Molecular Spectroscopy, 1964) from the University of Sheffield.
		Key Publications 1) M J Hopkinson, H W Kroto, J F Nixon and N P C Simmons, 'The detection of unstable molecules by microwave spectroscopy: phospha-alkenes CF2=PH, CH2=PCl and CH2=PH', J.C.S. Chem.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /chemistry/profile1523.html (836 words)

	NESTA - Sir Harry Kroto news release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Sir Harry Kroto, will present a virtual science workshop simultaneously with five schools from across the UK as part of NESTA’s (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) Inspire education initiative.
		Inspire is a pilot initiative that aims to utilise individuals with exceptional talent and vision in the fields of science and arts education to inspire others via outreach projects throughout the country.
		Sir Harry Kroto is an internationally renowned scientist who won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 (with Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley) for the discovery of new forms of the element carbon - called fullerenes - in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells.
	www.nesta.org.uk /mediaroom/newsreleases/1863/index.html (525 words)

	"The Meccano Man" - an interview with Harry Kroto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Professor Sir Harry Kroto talks to Shirley Dent about humanism, incredible molecules and building a better world.
		Feeling and doing, putting things together, are the key to Sir Harry’s philosophy, so much so that he believes it is the will to do and the facility to fit the pieces together that have made him a successful scientist.
		As a baby, Sir Harry’s father gave him a pocket-watch instead of a dummy, and he would fall asleep with the watch pressed up against his ear.
	www.newhumanist.org.uk /issues/0203/kroto.htm (2298 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Great Lives Sir Harry Kroto on Baruch Spinoza 29/11/2002
		to programme 7: Sir Harry Kroto on Baruch Spinoza
		His attempts to publish his other works, notably Ethics, were thwarted during his lifetime.
		In 1996 he recieved a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene and was knighted.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/greatlives/kroto_spinoza.shtml (625 words)

	Harold Kroto Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
		Fullerenes are considered from geometry, graph theory and knot theory point of view.
		Harry Kroto's signature on the starcar (submitted by randal schroeder)
		Harold W. Kroto Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
	www.almaz.com /nobel/chemistry/1996b.html (283 words)

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