Buckminsterfullerene, C60
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Buckminsterfullerene is the third allotrope of carbon that was discovered in 1985.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly to:

1. Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA
2. Professor Sir Harry W. Kroto FRS, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
3. Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA

   Take a look at the paper on their discovery of fullerenes.