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Found unusually stable clusters of 60 carbon atoms and proposed a closed, football-shaped molecular structure.
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Scientific scope
The 1985 structure proposal and mass-spectrometric evidence precede later bulk synthesis and structural confirmation. This package covers that discovery, not every fullerene material.
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People and systems
H. W. Kroto; J. R. Heath; S. C. O’Brien; R. F. Curl; R. E. Smalley
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Rice University, Houston; Kroto’s permanent address is the University of Sussex, UK.
English catalogue narrative
A new carbon structure: the buckyball
Found unusually stable clusters of 60 carbon atoms and proposed a closed, football-shaped molecular structure.
Scientific scope
The 1985 structure proposal and mass-spectrometric evidence precede later bulk synthesis and structural confirmation. This package covers that discovery, not every fullerene material.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
H. W. Kroto; J. R. Heath; S. C. O’Brien; R. F. Curl; R. E. Smalley
Full byline of the specified publication; original laboratory roles remain in the source.