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= Robert Curl
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Robert Curl is an American chemist who is best known for his co-discovery of fullerenes, a class of carbon allotropes that include structures like buckminsterfullerene (C60), which resembles a soccer ball. This groundbreaking work, conducted in the 1980s alongside Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto, led to significant advancements in the field of nanotechnology and materials science.