How the news that we were not the first to conceive of soccer ball C60 got to us

Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 185-186

  Curl, Robert F ^a   Smalley, Richard E ^a   Kroto, Harold W ^b   O'Brien, Sean ^c   Heath, James R ^d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

LIFE EVENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 0035013819     PISSN: 10933263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1093-3263(00)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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