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"Gamma," a spherical porcelain buckyball was the third piece of the Buckminster Fuller Presentation Series. On June 8, 1997, it was presented to Robert Curl who, with Richard Smalley and Sir Harold Kroto, co-discovered buckminsterfullerene C60 molecule in 1985. Professor Curl spearheads the Group for Infrared Kinetic Spectrocopy (IRKS) at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Using state of the art equipment, this group studies highly reactive "radicals" using light to break up stable molecules. In this way, they can determine the structures of such short-lived molecules which are difficult to track using conventional methods. Professor Curl was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto in 1996. Curl, a professor of chemistry, can be reached at the Rice University's Department of Chemistry or at Rice University's Group for Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy. A list of his recent research reports and articles can be found through his personal home page on the World Wide Web. Return to Presentation Series Introduction Page