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    Credit: ©The Royal Society/Anne Purkiss
    Image number: RS.8960

    Portrait of Sir Harry Kroto

    Date
    1996
    Sitter
    Sir Harold Walter Kroto (1939 - 2016, British) , Chemist
    Creator
    Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
    Object type
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Photograph of Sir Harry Kroto at Sussex University, Falmer, UK, October 1996.

    Sir Harry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 with Professor Robert Curl and Professor Richard Smalley.
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