Sir Harold Kroto

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Sheffield
gptkbp:birthDate 1939-10-07
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Wisbech,_Cambridgeshire,_England
gptkbp:children gptkb:David_Kroto
gptkb:Stephen_Kroto
gptkbp:deathDate 2016-04-30
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Lewes,_East_Sussex,_England
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:buckminsterfullerene_(C60)
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Richard_Dixon
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Florida_State_University
gptkb:University_of_Sussex
gptkbp:ethnicity Jewish
gptkbp:field gptkb:nanotechnology
chemistry
gptkbp:founded gptkb:Vega_Science_Trust
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Harold_Walter_Kroto
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Knight_Bachelor
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:Michael_Faraday_Award
gptkb:Foreign_Associate_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Longstaff_Prize
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Harold Kroto
gptkbp:knighted 1996
gptkbp:knownFor discovery of fullerenes
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith gptkb:Richard_Smalley
gptkb:Robert_Curl
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
1996
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:professor
chemist
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Edith_Krotoschiner
gptkb:Heinz_Krotoschiner
gptkbp:position Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry
gptkbp:religion atheist
gptkbp:signature Harold Kroto signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Margaret_Hunter
gptkbp:thesisTitle gptkb:The_Spectroscopy_of_Unstable_Molecules_under_High_Resolution
gptkbp:thesisYear 1964
gptkbp:title Sir
gptkbp:website http://www.kroto.info/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sheffield_University
gptkb:University_of_Sheffield
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5