C60 Buckminsterfullerene: The Celestial Sphere that fell to Earth

GEOSET
Published on Jul 11, 2014
5 + 2 Days of Opening Minds – 2013 (Harry Kroto) - Lecture 2

The discovery of C60 (the “Buckyball”), a cage molecule with the same pattern as a modern soccer ball, is described. Diamond and graphite, the two other forms of carbon, have been known for millennia and yet this third molecular form was only discovered near the end of the 20th Century.