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Smalley

[ US /ˈsmɑɫi/ ]
NOUN
  1. American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)

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  • At Houston's Rice University, where physicist Richard Smalley discovered the fullerene in 1985 (and in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize for his achievement), researchers have developed another platform for nanoscale drug delivery called the nanoshell. Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential
  • Smalley was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of closed, hollow cages of carbon atoms known as buckyballs.
  • Otherwise, I am not even watching the daily reruns on cable of "Grey's Anatomy" -- my own body and midstream ordeal is swallowing the lion's share of my focus right now, and as Stuart Smalley would say, "That's okay. Archive 2009-11-01
  • The following day, the defendant, having good reason to believe that Mr. Smalley had not been duly appointed, withdrew from the adjudication.
  • Alpheus," he said to Mr. Smalley, his informant, "you didn't use to know Deacon Zeb Clark, who lived up by the salt works in my granddad's time, hey? Cy Whittaker's Place
  • However, after Rice University professors Robert Curl and Richard Smalley won the Nobel Prize (with Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex) for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, Rice started a major research effort in nanoscale science and technology. MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research
  • There are distinct sub-groups of this shark, including the bonnethead shark, the shovelhead shark, the smalleye hammerhead, the smooth hammerhead, and the black hammerhead.
  • LOGAN SMALLEY, DIRECTOR, "DARIUS GOES WEST:" When Mario first asked me to take care of Darius, I definitely didn't understand what exactly it meant. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009
  • Through his acquaintanceship with Robert Curl, Kroto learned that it should be possible to use Smalley's instrument to study the vaporisation and cluster formation of carbon, which might afford him evidence that the long-carbon-chain compounds could have been formed in the hot parts of stellar atmospheres. Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Buckminister Fuller and Richard Smalley in terms of allotrope. The Lopsided Universe
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