Nobelist Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of buckyballs, dies
Howard Lovy and Rocky Rawstern bring us news of the death of Richard Smalley, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the buckyball. He was active in promoting the US National Nanotechnology Initiative and became an advocate of nanotechnology as a key approach to addressing the energy challenge.
November 1st, 2005 at 12:49 PM
Richard – a brilliant man. You will be sorely missed.
My thoughts are with your family.
November 1st, 2005 at 5:57 PM
What a loss – what depresses me the most is that Richard won’t be able to enjoy the fruits of a technological revolution he himself helped pioneer. Dying from leukemia will be a thing of the past 20 years from now and it is tragic that we have to lose such a brilliant mind to this disease.
What is sure is that he won’t be forgotten – we all are standing on the shoulders of giants and he’s definitely one of them.
November 3rd, 2005 at 1:46 PM
Sorry, but I not speak English! Uma grande perda a morte de Smalley. Não apenas pelo seu renome mundial, em particular pelo prêmio Nobel, mas pelo excelente teórico e expositor de idéias, especialmente inovadoras. Sentiremos sua falta.
Marcos Nalli
(Prof. de Filosofia – Universidade Estadual de Londrina/PR – Brasil)
November 3rd, 2005 at 2:18 PM
Approximate translation of the previous comment:
A great loss the death of Smalley. Not only for his world-wide reputation, in particular for the Nobel Prize, but for the excellent theoretician and expositor of ideas, especially innovative. We will feel his lack.
Marcos Nalli
(Prof. of Philosophy – State University of Londrina/PR – Brazil)
November 4th, 2005 at 8:03 PM
if we did not waste so much money on war we could have found a cure for cancer with the billions. thanks George w bush! you robbed me of Richard Smalley
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:07 AM
With the Prof.Smalley’s death his work probably is not finished.
I see a possible correlation with his pathology and the nanoparticles he synthetized
It is urgent I analyze his biopsies. If I see the presence of those nanoparticles in his pathological tissues my hypothesis can be true. This knowledge can save the life of other researchers.
Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti
gatti@unimo.it
Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Modena and ReggioEmilia (Italy)
Consultant of the Italian Government for the Depleted-Uranium Related diseases in the soldiers.
Coordinator of the European Project NANOPATHOLOGY