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ROBERT F. CURL
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• ROBERT F. CURL (noun)
The noun ROBERT F. CURL has 1 sense:
1. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Familiarity information: ROBERT F. CURL used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Curl; Robert Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Instance hypernyms:
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
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