We’re having a visit today, here at the University of Sheffield, from Sir Harry Kroto. Sir Harry, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley is a graduate of Sheffield University and is here to open a new multidisciplinary research building which is going to be named after him.
Sir Harry gave a public lecture about nanoscience, which was an impassioned statement of his belief that nanoscience and technology (which he believes to be essentially synonymous with chemistry) offers the only way towards achieving a sustainable way of life for the whole of the world’s population.
Hi!
I have been looking for a link for Sir Kroto’s lecture regarding Nanotechnology!
Do you have a transcript?
An amateur mathematician
I don’t have a transcript for this lecture, but a number of other lectures by Kroto can be viewed at:
http://www.vega.org.uk/series/lectures/kroto/index.php
I’ll pass on his best joke of the day, which was that after going through a spell-checker his name comes out as “Sir Harlot Crouton”.