Richard E.Smalley,1943-2005

摘要

THE WORLD LOST A MAJOR INTELLECT with the death on Oct.28 of Richard E.Smalley from leukemia (see page 7).Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the fullerenes,but by then he had become more focused on the potential of cousins of the fullerenes-carbon nanotubes-and had become a champion of a national research initiative on nanotechnology.