The world scientific community and the skeptic and freethought communities have lost a great friend with the death of Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto. He died April 30 at age seventy-six of a neurodegenerative disease.
Kroto received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes, a new form of carbon in which sixty carbon atoms are arranged in a ball-shaped polyhedron, popularly called a “buckyball.”