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Further reading

Information about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Jim Baggott, Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, Oxford University Press, 1994, IX + 315 pp.

Hugh Aldersey-Willliams, The Most Beautiful Molecule: An Adventure in Chemistry, Aurum Press, London, 1995, IX + 340 pp.

H.W. Kroto, A.W. Allaf, and S.P. Balm, C60: Buckminsterfullerene, Chemical Reviews (1991), Vol. 91, pp. 1213-35.

Richard E. Smalley, Great Balls of Carbon; The Story of Buckminsterfullerene, The Sciences (1991), March/April, pp. 22-28.

Hargittai, István, Discoverers of Buckminsterfullerene, The Chemical Intelligencer (1995), Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 6-26.

 

 

 



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