1. Discovery of Bucky Or at least how I remember it!! http://sbchem.sunysb.edu/msl/fullerene.html

2. How it all started Rick Smalley develops supersonic jet techniques (70s & 80s) Bob Curl (Rice) and Harry Kroto (Sussex) talk at a Conference in Austin, TX in 1984 Sean O’Brien and Jim Heath begin grad school at Rice: Fall 1984 Old Chemistry Building at Rice

3. Laser Vaporization Cluster Source http://smalley.rice.edu/images/nozzle.jpg Sean O’Brien designed this…

4. Cluster Source http://smalley.rice.edu/images/res_app2.jpg

5. First Published work at Exxon on Carbon Clusters http://smalley.rice.edu/images/cox_mass_spec.jpg

6. Why is C 60 ion so large? + From “Designing the Molecular World” by Phillip Ball, Princeton, 1994

7. Buckminsterfullerene!! www.kroto.info Sept. 1985

8. http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1996/ 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for their discovery of fullerenes” January 6, 1997 C&EN

9. Jim Heath then… www.kroto.info Now Joe built this!!!