리처드 스몰리

소개

리처드 에레트 스몰리(영어: Richard Errett Smalley, 1943년 6월 6일 ~ 2005년 10월 28일)는 미국의 화학자이다. 1996년에 풀러렌을 발견한 공로로 로버트 컬, 해럴드 크로토와 함께 노벨 화학상을 수상했다.

Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.