Nanotech celebrity and Nobel laureate Rick Smalley passes away

Nanotech pioneer Rick Smalley passed away this week, from cancer, at the age of just 62. As anyone who's followed nanotech will know, Smalley’s group’s discovery of fullerenes at Rice University back in 1986 was one of the seminal events in establishing nanotechnology as a field, and he continued we...

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