Relationship : Marriage 1955 (Jonel Whipple)
Work : Prize 1996 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Work : Retired 2008
Death:Death, Cause unspecified 3 July 2022 (Age 88) chart Placidus Equal_H.
American physical chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. Curls later research interests involved physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating photoacoustic sensors for trace gasses using quantum cascade lasers. Curl retired in 2008 at the age of 74, becoming a University Professor Emeritus, Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus, and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rice University. Curl married Jonel Whipple in 1955, with whom he had two children. He died in Houston on 3 July 2022 at the age of 88. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born on Wednesday, August 23, 1933, in Alice, United States. Currently 88 years old.
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