Nobel Prize Recipient. He received recognition after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. He shared the coveted award equally with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, Jr. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the three chemists were given the award "for their discovery of fullerenes." Their 1985 discovered of fullerene carbon compounds, which was also known as buckyballs or C60. Born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, his parents fled Germany in the late 1930s when the Nazi political party came to power with their antisemitic stance. His father was originally from Poland and Jewish. His father changed his surname to Kroto in 1955. He did not practice any religion. Born shortly after his parents' arrival to England as enemy aliens, he was raised in Lancashire, England. His interest in science began during his childhood. He obtained a first-class BSc degree in chemistry in 1961 and in 1964, he received his doctorate in Molecular Spectroscopy from Sheffield University. He began to be called "Harry" in college. He received a prestigious National Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship. In 1966 he moved to the United States to a post-doctoral position at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey before returning to England. He went on to serve with the faculty at the University of Sussex from 1967 until 2004. In 2004 he ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 1996, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He published numerous professional papers. In 1963 he married Margaret Henrietta Hunter, and the couple had two sons. He died from the complications of Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Nobel Prize Recipient. He received recognition after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. He shared the coveted award equally with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, Jr. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the three chemists were given the award "for their discovery of fullerenes." Their 1985 discovered of fullerene carbon compounds, which was also known as buckyballs or C60. Born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, his parents fled Germany in the late 1930s when the Nazi political party came to power with their antisemitic stance. His father was originally from Poland and Jewish. His father changed his surname to Kroto in 1955. He did not practice any religion. Born shortly after his parents' arrival to England as enemy aliens, he was raised in Lancashire, England. His interest in science began during his childhood. He obtained a first-class BSc degree in chemistry in 1961 and in 1964, he received his doctorate in Molecular Spectroscopy from Sheffield University. He began to be called "Harry" in college. He received a prestigious National Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship. In 1966 he moved to the United States to a post-doctoral position at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey before returning to England. He went on to serve with the faculty at the University of Sussex from 1967 until 2004. In 2004 he ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 1996, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He published numerous professional papers. In 1963 he married Margaret Henrietta Hunter, and the couple had two sons. He died from the complications of Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Bio by: C.S.
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