https://www.aaas.org/taxonomy/term/10/story-buckyballs
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Buckminsterfullerene, a sixty carbon soccer ball-shaped molecule, was discovered, named, and its structure deciphered over a ten day period of hectic activity by five scientists at Rice University in 1985. Three of these, Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, shared a Nobel Prize for its discovery in 1996. The story of the “buckyball” is an illustration of Louis Pasteur’s famous observation that chance favors the prepared mind.
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