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Professor Robert Curl received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1957 at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. He joined the Rice University since 1958 and has been promoted to full professorship in 1967, and also served as Chair of the Chemistry Department from 1992 to 1996. In 1985, Professor Curl, together with Professor Sir H W Kroto and Professor R E Smalley, discovered new forms of the element carbon - called fullerenes - in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells in the shape of a soccer ball. This discovery not only brought them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, it also created an entirely new field in science.
In his public lecture, entitled The Fullerenes, which will be held at 3:00pm, on Tuesday, May 7, at the Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong, Professor Curl will share his thoughts with the audience on science. Science, according to Professor Curl, is rarely advanced by the efforts of lonely individuals working in isolation. Instead science is a social enterprise where many contribute often in unexpected ways nourished by communication. Each new thing has almost always been foreshadowed by some previous thoughts. The history of the carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes provides a very nice illustration of the way science actually works and how much scientists depend upon each other.
This lecture will try to illuminate science through the fullerene story and show how a single new thing can broaden and deepen into a whole new field. Some of the many results of interest in this new field will be described.
On May 9 (Thursday), Professor Curl will deliver a scientific lecture, entitled Infrared Laser Spectroscopy, at 5:30 pm at Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU.
Members of the press are cordially invited to attend both lectures. For media enquiries, please contact Ms Avon Sit of HKU's Faculty of Science at 2241 5286.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry to Deliver Lectures at HKU
30 Apr 2002
Professor Robert F Curl, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1996, is to deliver a public lecture and a science lecture, both organised by the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), on May 7 and May 9 respectively.
Professor Robert Curl received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1957 at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. He joined the Rice University since 1958 and has been promoted to full professorship in 1967, and also served as Chair of the Chemistry Department from 1992 to 1996. In 1985, Professor Curl, together with Professor Sir H W Kroto and Professor R E Smalley, discovered new forms of the element carbon - called fullerenes - in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells in the shape of a soccer ball. This discovery not only brought them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, it also created an entirely new field in science.
In his public lecture, entitled The Fullerenes, which will be held at 3:00pm, on Tuesday, May 7, at the Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong, Professor Curl will share his thoughts with the audience on science. Science, according to Professor Curl, is rarely advanced by the efforts of lonely individuals working in isolation. Instead science is a social enterprise where many contribute often in unexpected ways nourished by communication. Each new thing has almost always been foreshadowed by some previous thoughts. The history of the carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes provides a very nice illustration of the way science actually works and how much scientists depend upon each other.
This lecture will try to illuminate science through the fullerene story and show how a single new thing can broaden and deepen into a whole new field. Some of the many results of interest in this new field will be described.
On May 9 (Thursday), Professor Curl will deliver a scientific lecture, entitled Infrared Laser Spectroscopy, at 5:30 pm at Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU.
Members of the press are cordially invited to attend both lectures. For media enquiries, please contact Ms Avon Sit of HKU's Faculty of Science at 2241 5286.
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