Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939-2016)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of fullerenes.”

British chemist. Kroto was born in Wisbech in Cambridgeshire on October 7, 1939. He was educated at the University of Sheffield where he completed his Ph.D. in 1964. After a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Research Council of Canada, two years with Bell Laboratories, Kroto moved to the University of Sussex (1967) where he was appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1985. Kroto died on April 30, 2016 in Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom.