Sir Harold Kroto, one of the co-recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will deliver at INL, in Braga (Portugal) a lecture entitled «Carbon in Nano and Outer Space», next Friday, June 1st, at 17h00, in the INL Auditorium.
Harold Kroto is an engaged advocate for science education. He is heavily involved with GEOSET, a Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering, and Technology programme which he initiated.
The programme seeks to exploit the revolutionary creative dynamics of the Internet to improve general level of science understanding and awareness worldwide.
Kroto is currently a Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, where he is carrying out research in nanoscience and cluster chemistry as well as developing exciting new Internet approaches to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) educational outreach. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and holds an emeritus professorship at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom.
The research program focuses on the complex range of molecular constituents in carbon valour; the development of novel 2 and 3D metal-cluster/organic frameworks as well as peptides; the stabilisation of small fullerenes; and carbon nanotube based devices behaviour.
Attendance is free although subject to prior registration. For attendance please contact isabel.machado@inl.int
