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• The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes.
• In 1985, a group of chemists discovered a new class of soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules that they dubbed "buckminsterfullerene," or "buckyballs."
• And buckminsterfullerene is more popularly known as “Bucky Balls”.
• The researchers named the newly-discovered structure buckminsterfullerene after him.