Definitions for Robert Curl
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1. Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.noun

   American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

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1. Robert Curl

   Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.

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1. robert curl

   Robert Curl is an American chemist known for his significant contributions to the field of science. Born on August 23, 1933, he is noted for his discovery of fullerene, a form of carbon molecule for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. This discovery opened up an innovative area of chemistry with various applications, including nanotechnology. In addition to his research, Curl has also served as a professor of chemistry and is an author of numerous scientific publications.

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1. Robert Curl

   Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene. Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was the son of a Methodist Minister. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. Curl received a B.A. from Rice Institute in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation. Curl often attended the German table at Hanszen College at Rice University. However, he is more known in the residential college life at Rice University for being the first master of Lovett College.

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   The numerical value of Robert Curl in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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