TALLAHASSEE Fla.-- A Florida State University Professor and Nobel Laureate died over the weekend at the age of 76.
Sir Harold Kroto joined the Florida State faculty in 2004 and retired in Spring of 2015.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the buckminsterfullerene molecule, also known as buckyballs.
Kroto discovery opened up a new world in chemistry and led to the development of new materials, like buckypaper , a feather-light material that is being tested in electronics, energy, medicine, space and transportation.
