| LC control no. | n 92009796 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kroto, H. W. |
| Variant(s) | Kroto, Harold W. Krotoschiner, Harold |
| Birth date | 1939-10-07 |
| Death date | 2016-04-30 |
| Place of birth | Wisbech (England) |
| Place of death | East Sussex (England) |
| Field of activity | Chemistry Molecular spectroscopy Buckminsterfullerene |
| Affiliation | Florida State University University of Sussex |
| Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Chemists |
| Found in | Author's Molecular rotation spectra, 1992: CIP t.p. (H.W. Kroto) galley (Sch. of Mol. Sci., University of Sussex) LC data base, 1/29/92 (hdg.: Kroto, H. W.) The Fullerenes, 1993: CIP t.p. (Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex) Wikipedia, 19 Apr. 2007 (Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939), christened Harold Krotoschiner; in 1955 the family name was shortened to Kroto. He is currently on faculty at Florida State University; since 2004) New York times WWW site, viewed May 5, 2016 (in obituary published May 4: Harold Kroto; b. Harold Krotoschiner, Oct. 7, 1939, Wisbech, England; moved to Bolton with his mother a year later; around 1955, his father changed the family name to Kroto; d. Saturday [Apr. 30, 2016], East Sussex, England, aged 76; spectroscopic chemist; shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a new arrangement of carbon known as the buckyball) |
| Associated language | eng |
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