Discovering the Fullerenes (Nobel Lecture)

Bucky get the prize —eleven years after the discovery of C 60 in 1985, the realization that carbon makes this truncated isosahedral molecule, and larger geodesic cages, all by itself is honored with the Nobel Prize. Only with the development of laser‐vaporization cluster beam methods did the particular signification of C 60 become apparent. Indeed the discovery process with respect to fullerenes and the properties of carbon is far from being complete.