C&EN: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - A NOBEL SUCCESS Washington, DC, 1985), Aaron Klug (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,Cambridge, England, 1982), sir harold W. kroto (University of Sussex, Brighton, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/8033/8033lindau.html
Extractions: Chemistry graduate students and postdocs from around the world meet with Nobel Laureates to discuss research, discovery, and life in general MADELEINE JACOBS EXHILARATING Lindau's beautiful harbor offered a delightful break for students and laureates. PHOTO BY MADELEINE JACOBS O nce-in-a-lifetime opportu nity. Those are the words that kept coming up in conversation with students who attended the 52nd Meeting of the Nobel Laureates And yet these dreams and much more came true this year, and have come true each summer for hundreds of students, on the island of Lindau, an enchanting medieval city located in Lake Constance. Lindau has been the unusual setting for bringing together Nobel Laureates and students since 1951, when the first meeting was held under the auspices of Count Lennart Bernadotte. This year's meeting attracted more than 600 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellowsalmost all of them chemistry students and fellowsand 17 Nobel Laureates. Typically, the laureates are invited to Lindau in three-year cycles alternating among physicists, chemists, and medical scientists.
C&EN: Latest News - Exeter Chemistry Faces Ax In a similar vein, former RSC president sir harold W. kroto, who shared the 1996Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes, is returning his http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8249/8249notw1.html
Extractions: The University of Exeter The announcement comes in the wake of the closure of chemistry departments at King's College London; Queen Mary, University of London; the University of Wales, Swansea; and other British universities. A final decision on the Exeter University proposal, which is part of a strategic overview, will be made by the university's governing body, the Council, when it meets on Dec. 20. Smith UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PHOTO The incoming class of students who enrolled for Exeter's chemistry degree programs will be the last, according to the university's vice chancellor, Steve Smith, who presented the proposal to university staff late last month. "Our growth needs to be selective," Smith says. The university is currently "spreading its jam too thinly," and chemistry in particular is a very expensive subject in a challenging undergraduate market, he adds. The focus of the new School of Biosciences will be on the molecular biosciences, building on strong foundations in ecophysiology and plant sciences, and will also include ecology and conservation biology, Smith says. "It will draw upon existing strengths in chemistry at the interface of chemical biology and medical sciences," he adds.
Extractions: Herbert Aaron Hauptman (*14. Februar 1917 in New York City ) ist Mathematiker und Biophysiker. Seit 1970 ist er Professor an der Medical Foundation in Buffalo . Zusammen mit Jerome Karle erhielt er 1985 den Nobelpreis für Chemie für die Entwicklung v http://www.adlexikon.de/Herbert_A_Hauptman.shtml - Zuletzt aktualisiert am: 15.09.2005
PRAHA2000 - Abstract Of Kroto Invited Lecture sir harold W. kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Science (includingtechnology) is the dominant culture of the 20th Century and seems set to http://www.chem.uni-wuppertal.de/conference/archives/kroto_abs.2000.html
Extractions: IOANNIS MARCUS MARCI LECTURE On September 5, 2000, a special invited lecture was given by the Nobel laureate Sir Harold W. Kroto. This lecture is held under the auspices of the Ioannis Marcus Marci Society (the Czech Spectroscopic Society). The abstract of the lecture follows here: Science: A Round Peg In A Square World Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Science (including technology) is the dominant culture of the 20th Century and seems set to dominate the 21st even more. However scientific advances are only made by intellectual endeavour as are advances in the Arts. These cultural aspects are continually overlooked as society exploits scientific knowledge without understanding it. This results in not only the injudicious use the fruits of scientific advances but also the misapplication of resources for research. Symmetry patterns are intrinsic to all aspects of perception and seem to play an essential role in the creative process in both the sciences and the arts. Without an awareness of the importance of such abstract concepts to the cathartic responses that underpin human endeavor it is unlikely that the present desperate attempts being made to improve the quantity and the quality of achievements (in scientific research and development or the arts) will be particularly successful. Scientists have made an outstanding impact on all aspects of everyday life, so much so that governments and their advisors have systematically, since the 2nd World War, taken more-and-more control of the direction of science and exerted pressures on scientists to become more-and-more relevant to what they (governments) deem to be important. This has led to the present crisis in that the eternal and interminable debate on the value of fundamental science versus applied science is no longer comparative - the question is whether any fundamental science should carried out at all. The definition of fundamental science may need clarification and two cases which highlight the importance of free access to information and the elimination of secrecy may help - The discoveries of platinum anti-cancer drugs and C
Extractions: Sir Harold W. Kroto Nobel de Química dio conferencias en la UNAM Patricia Vega Para sir Harold W. Kroto, premio Nobel de Química 1996, la ciencia es ``abstracta, pura, perfecta''. Sin embargo, lo que más le preocupa es ``no estar seguro de tener fe en que la raza humana utilizará la tecnología que se desprende de la ciencia de una manera juiciosa, ya que en estos tiempos las filosofías socioeconómicas (el capitalismo) están fuera de control. ``(...) hay científicos que creen que deben dedicarse sólo a su actividad y dejar los problemas éticos para otras personas; ésa es una negación absoluta de su deber. Los científicos tienen que reconocer que son los únicos que entienden el alcance de lo que han hecho, y que por ello tienen la oportunidad de entender todas las implicaciones. Por ello, los científicos tenemos que participar, de lleno, en la toma de decisiones políticas e industriales; lo que me preocupa es que hay consideraciones financieras a las que se les da más peso...'' Laureado por su descubrimiento de nuevos arreglos moleculares del carbono (carbono 60) que nunca habían sido observados y tienen una forma similar a la de un balón de futbol o un domo geodésico, Kroto llegó a México invitado por la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias para ofrecer dos conferencias magistrales en la UNAM, dentro del programa Conferencias Nobel que realiza anualmente la AMC. Para el académico de la Universidad de Sussex, Inglaterra, nacido en 1939, resulta ``indiscutible'' el papel predominante que la ciencia y la tecnología han tenido y tendrán en el próximo siglo. Sin embargo, ``se da el caso de políticos, funcionarios de gobierno y personas en diversas esferas de la sociedad que deben tomar decisiones sin la preparación para entender la tecnología que originó los diferentes adelantos sobre los cuales hay que decidir''.
Noble Prize 1996 Professor Robert F. Curl; Professor sir harold W. kroto; Professor Richard E.Smalley. for their discovery of Fullerenes (see Figure 1). http://www.ul.ie/elements/Issue6/Nobel Prize 1996.htm
Extractions: The Nobel Prize is by far the highest recognition a scientist may receive and the only one that the general public is familiar with. Its prestige has reached improbable heights. At the same time a lot of myth surrounds the Nobel Prize. On the 9 th October 1996 The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Science jointly to: for their discovery of Fullerenes (see Figure 1). This discovery took place during a period of eleven days in 1985. Their discovery of Fullerenes, a molcule with a structure composed of 60 carbon atom clusters earned them sciences highest honour. They called it buckminsterfullerene (C ) or Fullerene, for short - Buckyballs to the general public. The structures, named after architect Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes, look like soccer balls. They consist of carbon atoms in pentagons and hexagons bound together to form a hollow, spherical molecule (Figure 2). They are incredibly stable - when slammed against a steel surface at 17,000 miles per hour, they bounce off undisturbed. In 1991
20th Century Year By Year 1995 1933; kroto, sir harold W., Great Britain, University of Sussex, Sussex, GreatBritain, b. 1939; and SMALLEY, RICHARD E., USA Rice University, Houston, TX, http://www.historycentral.com/20th/1996.html
Extractions: dla Sir Harolda Kroto Na wniosek Rady Wydzia³u In¿ynierii Materia³owej i Ceramiki, Senat AGH, uchwa³± podjêt± w dniu 31 stycznia 2001 r. nada³ tytu³ doktora honoris causa Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej w Krakowie, Profesorowi Sir Haroldowi Kroto, za wybitny wk³ad w rozwój nauki ¶wiatowej poprzez odkrycie nowej grupy cz±steczek wêgla - fulerenów. Promotorem doktoratu by³ prof. Miros³aw Handke (tekst laudacji wyg³oszonej przez Pana Profesora w trakcie uroczysto¶ci wrêczenia doktoratu honoris causa w dniu 10 pa¼dziernika 2001 r. - przedstawiamy poni¿ej). Recenzentami byli: prof. dr hab. in¿. Zbigniew Floriañczyk Dziekan Wydzia³u Politechniki Warszawskiej, prof. dr hab. Henryk Ratajczak z Uniwersytetu Wroc³awskiego (obecnie Dyrektor Stacji PAN w Pary¿u). Magnificencjo, Wysoki Senacie! W naszym tradycyjnym ceremoniale nadania godno¶ci Doktora Honoris Causa promotor jest zobowi±zany wyg³osiæ laudacjê czyli pochwa³ê kandydata do tej najwy¿szej godno¶ci akademickiej. Wychwalaj±c zas³ugi i osi±gniêcia promotor chce dowie¶æ, ¿e ta godno¶æ jest w najwy¿szym stopniu zas³u¿ona. Ja dzisiaj jestem w sytuacji wyj±tkowej, gdy¿ osi±gniêcia i zas³ugi kandydata s± oczywiste i powszechnie znane i uznane. Zosta³y uznane i potwierdzone najpierw przez Jej Wysoko¶æ El¿bietê II poprzez nadanie Profesorowi Kroto tytu³u szlacheckiego, potem przez Królewsk± Akademiê w Sztokholmie przyznaj±ca Sir Haroldowi w roku 1996 nagrodê Nobla w dziedzinie chemii a potem przez decyzjê kilkunastu znakomitych uniwersytetów, które obdarzy³y Go godno¶ci± doktora honorowego.
Stowarzyszenie Techników Polskich W Wielkiej Brytanii Brytyjczyk sir harold W. kroto jest jednym z najwybitniejszych chemików XX wieku, sir harold kroto urodzil sie w 1939 r. w Wisbech, Cambridgeshire w http://www.stpuk.org/tin/tin_nr_71/tin-nr-71-art05.htm
Extractions: TECHNIKA I NAUKA NR 71 Odkrywca wÄglowej piÅki - sto razy mocniejszej od stali Brytyjczyk Sir Harold W. Kroto jest jednym z najwybitniejszych chemik³w XX wieku, w dziedzinie nano-science [10-9]. DziÄki jego odkryciu tzw. 'fuleren³w' prawdopodobnie bÄdzie można konstruowaÄ superkomputery wielkoÅci paczki papieros³w. Uczony jest z pochodzenia Polakiem. Ponad sto lat temu jego dziadkowie wyemigrowali z Wielkopolski, a Ålad polskoÅci do dziÅ przetrwaÅ w nazwisku uczonego. Kroto to skr³t od KrotoszyÅskiego. Jeszcze w XIX wieku dziadek uczonego miaÅ sklep w Bojanowie. Do dziÅ przy tamtejszym rynku stoi dom, kt³ry należaÅ do KrotoszyÅskich. Przed fulerenami otwierajÄ siÄ szerokie perspektywy zar³wno w budownictwie, elektrotechnice jak i w medycynie. We wnÄtrzu stalowej piÅki można zamknÄ Ä atom wybranego pierwiastka i w takim opakowaniu wprowadziÄ do organizmu np. pierwiastek radioaktywny). Fulereny bÄdÄ miaÅy duże znaczenie w rozwoju komputer³w - m³wi prof. Kroto.
Grupo De Materiales Avanzados sir harold W. kroto (FRS and Nobel Lauriate). Date of Visit, September 2001.Came From, Sussex University, UK. INVITED TALK. Internet Science Education. http://materials.ipicyt.edu.mx/english/visitors/kroto.html
Chembytes E-zine 1996 - Bouncing To A Nobel Prize sir harold kroto has scored a chemistry Nobel prize for Britain for his pivotal Br., January 1990, p 40), it was only in 1990 that two physicists, W. http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/1996/nobel96.htm
Extractions: Bouncing to a Nobel prize The discovery and isolation of buckminsterfullerene has been high on most chemists' list of Nobel-worthy achievements for a long time; the question has always been which of several credible candidates would share the accolade with 'Harry'. For no-one had any doubt that Kroto was the driving force behind the most newsworthy molecule of the 1980s. In the event, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences chose to recognise the contributions of Richard Smalley, the cluster chemist at Rice University, Houston, in whose lab the key experiments were carried out, and Robert Curl, the spectroscopist (also at Rice) who brought Kroto and Smalley together. In the early 1980s Kroto was using microwave spectroscopy to study stellar atmospheres, particularly the carbon-rich stars, and began to speculate about the origin of certain long-chain carbon compounds that could be predicted from the spectra. Through Curl, Kroto discovered that Smalley had built a laser-supersonic cluster beam apparatus that could be used to investigate these molecules. The story of how Smalley, Kroto, Curl, and three graduate students, J. R. Heath, Yuan Liu and S. C. O'Brien, began making carbon clusters with this apparatus; how the magic C
Chembytes E-zine 1996 - Designs On C60 It is a sentiment with which sir harold kroto might very well agree. W.Krätschmer, L. Lamb, K. Fostiropoulos and D. Huffman, Nature (London), 1990, http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/1996/kroto.htm
Extractions: Designs on C crystals, there can be no doubts. Besides C itself (dubbed buckminsterfullerene by Kroto), there is a now a whole galaxy of fullerenes, including magic species C , C , C etc , extending all the way to C or more, as well as a range of bucky tubes and cages ( see Box Kroto's role as one of the founding fathers of the field was acknowledged in the last New Year's Honours list, when he became one of only a handful of chemists of his generation to receive a knighthood. It is an honour that came as a complete surprise, he says; as a fundamental scientist, he never contemplated such recognition of his work. It was Kroto's interest in microwave spectroscopy, as well as in radioastronomy, that led to the chance discovery of C . He is well aware of the irony over the timing of his knighthood: he believes that cutbacks in funding over the past 15 years make it unlikely that such purely curiosity motivated research would receive any funding today. Such constraints only add to Kroto's conviction that, given the choice again now, he would 'almost certainly not choose a career in chemistry'. In fact, Kroto never planned to become a chemist. He describes his career path as 'a course of least resistance. I was good at science and I was also good at design and graphics'.
Extractions: 16,00 h. Starting session 16,30 h. "Arquitecture of the microcosmos" Sir Harold W. Kroto, Premio Nobel de Química 1996 University of Sussex 17,30 h. "Statistical mechanics of supramolecular aggregates: from complex fluids to biomolecular assemblies" Jean-Pierre Hansen University of Cambridge 18,30 h.
Extractions: ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES IN CHEMISTRY Name Year Awarded Alder, Kurt Altman, Sidney Anfinsen, Christian B. Arrhenius, Svante August ... Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES IN PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE Name Year Awarded Adrian, Lord Edgar Douglas Arber, Werner Axelrod, Julius Baltimore, David ... Zinkernagel, Rolf M. Source: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Fullerenes: An Overview in such diverse areas as astrochemistry, superconductivity and materialschemistry/physics. Professor sir harold W. kroto. (University of Sussex) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/projects/unwin/Fullerenes.html
Extractions: Peter Unwin Fullerenes (An Overview) Introduction The 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been won by Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery in 1985 of a new allotrope of carbon, in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells. The new form was found to have the structure of a truncated icosahedron, and was named Buckminsterfullerene, after the architect Buckminster Fuller who designed geodesic domes in the 1960's. Formerly, six crystalline forms of the element carbon were known, namely two kinds of graphite, two kinds of diamond, chaoit and carbon(VI). The latter two were discovered in 1968 and 1972. The way was thus open for studying the chemical properties of C60 and other carbon clusters such as C70, C76, C78 and C84. New substances were produced from these compounds, with new and unexpected properties. An entirely new branch of chemistry developed, with consequences in such diverse areas as astrochemistry, superconductivity and materials chemistry/physics. Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto
Le Prix PuRkwa GrandeBretagne De gauche à droite sir harold W. kroto, Pr. Bruce Alberts, http://www.emse.fr/fr/actualites/purkwa/lancement.html
Website on March 22, 2002 sir harold W. kroto Provided by the Advanced Research ComputingUCLA School of Medicine. Duration 4453 minutes (RealPlayer) Source CNSI http://nanocomputer.org/index.cfm?content=81&Menu=26
