News: Nobel winner who discovered 'buckyballs' is dead

AOL News - Nobel Winner Who Discovered 'Buckyballs' Is Dead: "Rice University professor Richard Smalley, who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of 'buckyballs,' has died of cancer at the age of 62, the university said on Friday.

Buckyballs, short for buckminsterfullerenes, were a form of carbon that had 60 atoms arranged in a hollow sphere and whose discovery in 1985 opened the way for the development of the field of nanotechnology."