robert curl

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Noun robert curl has 1 sense

Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
--₁ is a kind of chemist

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Term: Robert Curl

Description:

Robert Curl is a renowned American chemist who co-discovered the buckminsterfullerene, a molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a hollow sphere. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for this groundbreaking discovery.

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Noun: Robert Curl's research on buckminsterfullerene revolutionized the field of chemistry.

Verb: The scientists collaborated to curl the carbon atoms into the unique structure of the buckminsterfullerene.

Adjective: The curl-shaped molecule proved to have remarkable properties.

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