Fullerenes finally score as Nobe committee honours chemists

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London. The Nobel committee last week gave the answer to a favourite topic of speculation at chemistry conferences for several years: when would the chemistry prize be awarded for the discovery that carbon atoms can assemble into the C. carbon cages of buckminsterfullerene -- and who would win it? Both questions have now been answered, the second with the decision to award the prize to Sir Harry Kroto of the UK University of Sussex (bottom right), and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley of Rice University in Houston, Texas (right).