Team accounts of the C60 discovery
There are several personal accounts by members of the team who made the C60 discovery. These reflect the different multidisciplinary perspectives that were necessary to make the discovery possible.
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Team accounts
- Sir Harry Kroto's day by day account of the discovery of C60: Buckminsterfullerene.
- Robert Curl's 'Dawn of the Fullerenes' lecture (PDF, 991KB).
- Robert Smalley's 'Discovering the Fullerenes' lecture (PDF, 2.5MB).
- 'The celestial sphere that fell to Earth' by Sir Harry Kroto (PDF, 2.25MB).
- 'The celestial sphere that fell to Earth', a recording of Sir Harry Kroto's lecture.
- Jim Heath interview, 'What is a Buckyball?'.
Other accounts
- 'Fullerenes gain Nobel stature', Chemical and engineering news.
- 'Discovering the Buckyball' in 'The nanotech pioneers: where are they taking us?' by Steven A Edwards.
- 'Serendipity is no accident' by Robert Friedel (PDF, 589KB).
- 'Visualisations: the nature book of art and science' by Martin Kemp.
- 'Discovery of Fullerenes', National Historic Chemical Landmark.
- Buckminster Fullerene C60
- 'A century of nature: twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world', edited by Laura Garwin, Tim Lincoln.