Clark Atlanta University News January 31, 2012 NOBEL LAUREATE SIR HAROLD KROTO TO LECTURE AT CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY FEB. 21 Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will lecture on "Carbon in Nano and Outer Space" Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 11 a.m. in the Thomas W. Cole Jr. Research Center for Science and Technology at Clark Atlanta University (CAU), 223 James P. Brawley Drive, S.W. Presented by the CAU chapter of the National Organization For The Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the Department of Chemistry, the lecture is free and open to the public. CAU President Carlton E. Brown said, "As a research institution, we are honored to present this Nobel Laureate to our students, the campus community and Atlanta citizens. His presence underscores the university's mission to attract international researchers and further supports the vision of our Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials to train physical scientists." Kroto was born in 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, U.K. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1964 at the University of Sheffield, UK. Kroto, one of the co-recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, now teaches at Florida State University (FSU), where he is a Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Kroto gives a highly popular series of public lectures, visiting area schools to promote science education, and has taught a graduate class on interstellar chemistry. He came to FSU from the University of Sussex in England, where he taught for 37 years. Through the Vega Trust website, Kroto aims to create a broadcast platform for the science, engineering and technology (SET) communities, enabling them to communicate on all aspects of their fields of expertise. An ardent advocate for science education, he devotes much of his time and energy to promoting careers in science among young people. Kroto's Nobel Prize was based on his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs." The extraordinary molecule consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged as a spheroid, in a pattern exactly matching the stitching on soccer balls. The configuration reminded Kroto of the geodesic domes designed by the late inventor/architect Buckminster Fuller, hence the name "buckminsterfullerines." In 2001, Kroto won the Royal Society's prestigious Michael Faraday Award. The award is given annually to a scientist who has done the most to further public communication of science, engineering or technology in the United Kingdom. For more information about the lecture, e-mail DWare@cau.edu or call 404-880-6850. About CFNM The Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials was established at Clark Atlanta University on Nov. 1, 2006. The programs and activities of the Center are designed to meet the dual goals of advancing human understanding in the area of nanoscale materials, and of increasing the capacity of Clark Atlanta University to train talented scientists in the physical sciences. The Center, though housed at CAU, is multi-institutional, and creates a mutually beneficial and cooperative relationship with two-year and four-year colleges, research universities and the K-12 community. Furthermore, the Center brings together researchers and educators from different disciplines with demonstrated and complementary strengths in quality research and training students. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.