Nobel Prize Winners

[George James Software]

 >This actual announcement from the "Acadame",  an electronic summary of 
>the Chronicle of Higher Education, struck me as Pynconesque enough to 
>post to the list.
> 
>  * THREE PROFESSORS today won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
>    their discovery of ball-shaped forms of the element carbon.
>    The award will be shared by Robert F Curl, Jr., and Richard
>    E. Smalley both professors of chemistry at Rice University,
>    and Sir Harold W. Kroto, a professor in the School of
>    Chemistry and Molecular Sciences at the University of Sussex.
>

Even more Pynchonesque is the name of this ball shaped form of carbon:
Buckminsterfullerine (affectionately known as Buckyballs).

They were named after Mr Buckminster-Fuller who designed the geodesic space
frame used for one of the pavilions at the Canadian Expo 67.

80N (ha ha)