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C60 Buckminsterfullerene - Some Inside Stories
by Harry Kroto (Florida State University, USA)
Hardback 183 pages 2015-07-31 Print ISBN: 9789814463713 eBook ISBN: 9789814463720 DOI: 10.4032/9789814463720 List price : $34.95
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“This marvelous book brings together the story of C60 in the words of many of those who played an important role in the work. The very well-written introduction by Nobel Laureate Harold Kroto brings a clear perspective to the whole story showing how the works of the contributors fit together. Altogether, this is a wonderful window into the very human thoughts of scientists at all levels as they pursue their dreams.”
Prof. Robert F. Curl - Nobel Laureate
This compendium of accounts reveals the unique perspectives of many scientists who made major contributions to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene but who have not previously published personal accounts. The introduction attempts to provide a rational framework for understanding how this discovery came about and how firmly it rested on earlier technical breakthroughs and how important were the contributions of researchers who were young students at the time. In addition to these accounts, most of the key publications are also reprinted. More than anything else, this book gives an in-depth overview of how important cross-disciplinary advances from laboratory synthesis, molecular spectroscopy, radioastronomy, stellar chemistry, and cluster chemistry were in the discovery. Indeed the story shows not only how major breakthroughs are often impossible to predict but also that the discovery is a perfect example of the value of fundamental science and why it must continue to be supported.
About the Editor
Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS, is the British chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Kroto is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Prior to that, he spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he now holds an emeritus professorship.
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![]() | Front Matter Download PDF | Free | ||
![]() | 3 | Introduction Harry Kroto | $25.00 | |
![]() | 39 | Chapter A1: History of “the nozzle” Lennard Wharton | $25.00 | |
![]() | 47 | Chapter A2: Up the carbon path David E. H. Jones | $25.00 | |
![]() | 49 | Chapter A3: In my time: scenes of scientific life (extract) Sydney Leach | $25.00 | |
![]() | 53 | Chapter A4: Early days in the Rick Smalley lab Michael A. Duncan | $25.00 | |
![]() | 69 | Chapter A5: Discovery of IRC+10216 Eric Becklin | $25.00 | |
![]() | 73 | Chapter A6: The discovery of the fullerenes Sean C. O’Brien | $25.00 | |
![]() | 87 | Chapter A7: How I conceived soccerball molecule C60 Eiji Osawa | $25.00 | |
![]() | 97 | Chapter A7a: Partial translation of the book Aromaticity (in Japanese) Zen-ichi Yoshida and Eiji Osawa | $25.00 | |
![]() | 101 | Chapter A8: The first stepwise chemical synthesis of C60 Lawrence T. Scott | $25.00 | |
![]() | 113 | Chapter A9: C60, Arizona, Don Huffman, and other stories Lowell D. Lamb | $25.00 | |
![]() | 127 | Chapter A10: A PhD student’s account of the C60 story Jonathan Hare | $25.00 | |
![]() | 149 | Chapter A11: The C60 buckminsterfullerene formation process: new revelations after 25 years Paul Dunk | $25.00 | |
![]() | Index Download PDF | Free |
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