SECTION A
Introduction; Harry Kroto
SECTION B Personal Accounts
History of "the Nozzle"; Lennard Wharton
Up the Carbon Path; David Jones
In My Time: Scenes from a Scientific Life (extract); Sydney Leach
Early Days in the Rick Smalley Lab; Michael Duncan
Discovery of IRC+10216; Eric Becklin
The Discovery of the Fullerenes; Sean O’Brien
How I Conceived Soccer-Ball Molecule C60?
Partial Translation of a book, "Aromaticity" (in Japanese); Eiji Ōsawa
The First Stepwise Chemical Synthesis of C60; Larry Scott
C60, Arizona, Don Huffman, and Other Stories; Lowell Lamb
A PhD Student Account of the C60 Story; Jon Hare
The C60 Buckminsterfullerene Formation Process: New Revelations after 25 Years; Paul Dunk
Biography
Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS, is the British chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Kroto is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Prior to that, he spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he now holds an emeritus professorship.
"This marvelous book brings together the story of C60 in the words of many of those who played an important role in the work. The very well-written introduction by Nobel Laureate Harold Kroto brings a clear perspective to the whole story showing how the works of the contributors fit together. Altogether, this is a wonderful window into the very human thoughts of scientists at all levels as they pursue their dreams."
— Prof. Robert F. Curl, Nobel Laureate
