About
Physicist and astronomer who is considered the father of nanotechnology. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for his discovery of fullerenes.
Before Fame
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1973, after getting his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1965.
Trivia
He believed in Old Earth creationism, a view which ran counter to what many other scientists believed.
Family Life
He was the youngest of four siblings.
Associated With
He won the Nobel Prize three years before Ahmed Zewail.
