The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

In 1985, a group of chemists discovered a new class of soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules that they dubbed "buckminsterfullerene," or "buckyballs.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And buckminsterfullerene is more popularly known as “Bucky Balls”.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s Bucky’s World And We’re Just Living In It] Reference

The researchers named the newly-discovered structure buckminsterfullerene after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

They named this new carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene after the American architect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech] Reference

C60 was given a fanciful name, buckminsterfullerene, after the American architect R. Buckminster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle] Reference

You said “lack the creativity to come up with a better name than buckminsterfullerene or buckyballs”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky returns, in paper form « Boy Genius Report] Reference

If we now imagine that we place a carbon atom at each one of these 60 corners, we know how buckminsterfullerene looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Smalley won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of buckminsterfullerene, fondly known as the "buckyball" in industry circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Richard Smalley: Visionary and Pioneer] Reference

Probing the processor, Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Codgerspace]

Nanomaterials including buckminsterfullerene have toxicity issues, but on the other hand, they have all kinds of environmental and biomedical uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research] Reference

Zelen Fullerene C-60 Day Cream, as the name implies, incorporates nanoscale Fullerene C-60, a derivative of the late Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley's buckminsterfullerene carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Nano Products of 2005] Reference

In 1999 atoms of an extremely heavy isotope of carbon, known as “buckminsterfullerene” were shown to be capable of entanglement: they proved to have wave properties as well as corpuscular properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES] Reference

Also available to U.K. consumers is Zelens Fullering C-60 Day Cream, which, as the name implies, incorporates a derivative of the late Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley's nanoscale buckminsterfullerene carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nanotech Primes The Fountain Of Youth] Reference

Only in America can a man with the mental prowess to discover what was to be only the third form of pure-carbon molecule known to man, also lack the creativity to come up with a better name than buckminsterfullerene or “buckyballs”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky returns, in paper form « Boy Genius Report] Reference

However, after Rice University professors Robert Curl and Richard Smalley won the Nobel Prize (with Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex) for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, Rice started a major research effort in nanoscale science and technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research] Reference

That inspired Kroto to name the new molecule buckminsterfullerene, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

The 1996 chemistry prize was also awarded for a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

In truth, graphene does look a more plausible candidate for commercialisation than buckminsterfullerene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Any of the five or six people involved in the description and naming of buckminsterfullerene, on September 9-10, 1985.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference

On September 4th, Google celebrated the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the buckminsterfullerene with a special doodle.    From Wordnik.com.  [WebProNews Feed] Reference

In the quarter century since five men had their "Aha!" moment in Houston, the buckminsterfullerene molecule has become the vanguard of a revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

Buckyjunk refers to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of carbon nanotubes (aka buckytubes, based on buckyballs or buckminsterfullerene).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zach Klein Universal Feed] Reference

Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the Year of the Nano, Rice's celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the buckminsterfullerene molecule -- the "buckyball" -- that enables nanotechnology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

Kroto is perhaps best known as one of three recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Biochemistry for his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

University of Western Ontario astronomer Jan Cami holds a model of the C60 molecule buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, which he and his team have discovered in space using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toronto Sun] Reference

The discovery of buckminsterfullerene - or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech] Reference

DDT, DNA, penicillin) to the less familiar (buckminsterfullerene).    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleans.ca] Reference

(buckminsterfullerene).    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

Tags: buckminsterfullerene, Buckyballs, Buckypaper, science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky returns, in paper form « Boy Genius Report] Reference

That, my dear, Marcia, is a C60, a buckminsterfullerene molecule, or buckyball for short.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

Tagged with 1967 World's Fair, Biosphere, Buckminster Fuller, buckminsterfullerene, buckyballs, Elizabeth Kolbert, Expo '67, geodesic dome, Montreal, Whitney Museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s Bucky’s World And We’re Just Living In It] Reference

It covers aspirin, Prozac, progestin, penicillin G, isooctane, DNA, DDT, buckminsterfullerene, nylon and polyethylene, linking each substance with a decade in the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chemistry as Catalyst] Reference