Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016),[1] known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist.[2]
Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he was an emeritus professor.[3] Kroto was an early supporter of Asteroid Day.[4][5]
Kroto was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1992.[6]
Kroto died on 30 April 2016 in Lewes, East Sussex from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 76.[7]
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