1985

RC grantees help discover Buckminster-fullerenes.

1985 Buckyball Large

Robert F. Curl Jr. received a Research Corporation grant in 1959 for “Investigations of the microwave spectra of radicals and molecules” at Rice University.

Richard E. Smalley received a Research Corporation grant in 1977 for research in “Supersonic molecular beam laser spectroscopy of photoactive molecules” at Rice University.