Nobel laureate Curl to discuss books that shaped his world March 28

ROBERT CURL

Nobel laureate Robert Curl will discuss “The Books That Shaped My World” at 7 p.m. March 28 in Fondren Library’s Kyle Morrow Room.

The 1985 discovery of carbon 60 (the buckyball) by Curl, University Professor Emeritus and the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, and collaborators Rick Smalley and Harry Kroto laid the foundation for the opening of a new frontier in nanoscale science and nanotechnology. The discovery also led to a shared Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded in 1996.

Hosted by Friends of Fondren Library, this lecture series features Rice faculty members discussing books that were influential to them. Previous speakers have been Allen Matusow, the William Gaines Twyman Professor of History and associate director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy, and John Boles, the William P. Hobby Professor of History. To see a list of the books that shaped their world, visit http://library.rice.edu/about/friends-of-fondren/previous-books-that-shaped-my-world-events.