Není překvapivé, že Královská švédská akademie rozhodla ocenit roku 1996 Nobelovou cenou za chemii tyto autory: Ø profesor Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.), Ø Sir Harold W. Croto (Univ. Sussex, Brighton, U.K.) a Ø profesor R.E.Smalley (Rice University).
It is not surprising, that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry to professor Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.), Professor Sir Harold W. Croto (University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.) and professor Richard E. Smalley (Rice University) for the principal discoveries in this field.