Sir Harold Walter Kroto#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1252 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kroto.info |
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
