Sir Harold Walter Kroto#
Harold Kroto passed away April 30, 2016.
Positions Held- 2004 Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University
- 1985 - 2005 Professor at University of Sussex (Brighton)
- 1967 - 1985 Tutorial Fellow at University of Sussex (Brighton)
- 1964 - 1966 Postdoc studies at National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada)
- 1964 PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy at University of Sheffield
Fields of Scholarship- Nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Chemistry
Honours and Awards- 2007 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Order of Cherubini, Torino
- 2002 - 2004 President of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2002 Copley Medal of the Royal Society
- 2002 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
- 1998 Hon. Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
- 1998 Dalton Medal (Manchester Lit and Phil)
- 1997 American Carbon Society Medal for Achievement in Carbon Science
- 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- 1993 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1993 Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal
- 1992 Italgas Prize for Innovation in Chemistry
- 1981 Tilden Lectureship of the RSC