buckminsterfullerene

“To understand how the carbon atoms in buckminsterfullerene are connected to each other, we need only recall the pattern on the surface of a soccer ball, or European football.”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech

“The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes.”

Nano Tech Wire

“Tom LetourneauCumberland, R. I.Chemists Get the CreditYour June 30 story "Bucky's Very Large Dome" on Buckminster Fuller stated that "physicists discovered the soccer-ball-shaped carbon C60 molecule" and named it "buckminsterfullerene" for its resemblance to Fuller's geodesic domes.”

Newsweek: Learning More About a Private Lady

“Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball”

The Guardian: Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle

“However, after Rice University professors Robert Curl and Richard Smalley won the Nobel Prize (with Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex) for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, Rice started a major research effort in nanoscale science and technology.”

MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research

“Nanomaterials including buckminsterfullerene have toxicity issues, but on the other hand, they have all kinds of environmental and biomedical uses.”

MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research

“They dubbed it buckminsterfullerene -- or "bucky ball" to its fans.”

Newsweek: Keep Your Eye On The 'Bucky Balls'

“In 1999 atoms of an extremely heavy isotope of carbon, known as “buckminsterfullerene” were shown to be capable of entanglement: they proved to have wave properties as well as corpuscular properties.”

Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES

“Only in America can a man with the mental prowess to discover what was to be only the third form of pure-carbon molecule known to man, also lack the creativity to come up with a better name than buckminsterfullerene or “buckyballs”.”

Bucky returns, in paper form « Boy Genius Report