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The Carbon Medal is a medal of achievement in
The Carbon Medal is a medal of achievement in carbon
Carbon () is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalence, tetravalent—meaning that its atoms are able to form up to four covalent bonds due to its valence shell exhibiting 4 ...
science and technology given by the American Carbon Society for the "... outstanding contributions to the discovery of novel carbon products or processes."
Awardees
The following have won the Carbon Medal: * 1997 Robert Curl (Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
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, co-discoverer of fullerene)
* 1997 Harry Kroto (University of Sussex
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, co-discoverer of fullerene)
* 1997 Richard Smalley (Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
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, co-discoverer of fullerene)
* 2001 Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...
, researcher of carbon nanotubes)
* 2004 Donald S. Bethune (IBM research, researcher of single-walled carbon nanotubes)
* 2004 Morinobu Endo
Morinobu Endo (遠藤 守信 ''Endō Morinobu'', born September 28, 1946) is a Japanese physicist and chemist, often cited as one of the pioneers of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes synthesis at the beginning of the 1970s. He demonstrated ...
(Shinshu University
, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Matsumoto, Nagano, Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As the only national university in Japan bearing the name of a former Provinces of Japan, Japanese province, it bears the nam ...
, one of the pioneers of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes synthesis)
* 2004 Sumio Iijima (NEC
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, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes)
* 2016 Andre Geim
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
Geim was awarded th ...
(University of Manchester, co-inventor of graphene)
* 2016 Konstantin Novoselov
Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov ( rus, Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов,
p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ nəvɐˈsʲɵləf; born 1974) is a Russian–British physicist. His work on graphene ...
(University of Manchester, co-inventor of graphene)
References
{{Reflist 1997 establishments in the United States Awards established in 1997 American science and technology awards Carbon