1. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933); [syn: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
n 1: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto
discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry
(born in 1933) [syn: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F.
Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.]