Harold Kroto

Sir Harold Walter Kroto KBE FRS (born October 7, 1939) is an English chemist.

Awards and Honours

Kroto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, and awarded a knighthood (becoming Sir Harold Kroto) in 1996. Later that year he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2004 he won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society.

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Fellow of the Royal Society - 1990 - 1996 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 2004 - Copley Medal - Royal Society

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His alma mater, The University of Sheffield awarded him with an honourary doctorate in 1995 at the undergraduate degree congregation.

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Alma mater - University of Sheffield - Honourary doctorate - 1995

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On 29th November, 2004, Kroto annouced he was to return his honorary degree from the University of Exeter, in protest over the closure of their Department of Chemistry.

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2004 - University of Exeter

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