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http://doi.org/10.15407/visn2012.09.039
Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2012. (9): 39-45

I.S. Chekman
Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv

RICHARD SMALLEY AND THE FAMOUS ‘TEN SEPTEMBER DAYS’

Abstract:
27 years since the discovery of fullerene, the new form of carbon, is observed in September of this year. This event has literally shocked scientists, who believed at that time that they know almost everything about the elementary carbon. History of this discovery is rather unusual. Long ago, in 1971 the possibility of the existence of a fullerene molecule was predicted by an young Japanese scientist E. Osawa. Then two Soviet chemists and theorists D.A. Bochvar and E.G. Halpern confirm the stability of the C60 molecule using  quantum chemical calculations, and in 1985 at last R. Smalley, R. Curl and H. Kroto experimentally obtained clusters of 60 carbon atoms in a sustainable form. They explained the structure of this molecule as the structure of a soccer ball. This material is devoted to the inspirer of this discovery, an outstanding scientist, Nobel laureate, active popularizer of nanotechnology — Richard Smalley.
Keywords: fullerenes, carbon, Richard Smalley.

 

Language of article: ukrainian

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