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HAROLD W. KROTO

Overview

HAROLD W. KROTO (noun)
  The noun HAROLD W. KROTO has 1 sense:

1. British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)play

  Familiarity information: HAROLD W. KROTO used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HAROLD W. KROTO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harold Kroto; Harold W. Kroto; Kroto; Sir Harold Walter Kroto

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)


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