RICHARD E. SMALLEY

IPA (US):

• RICHARD E. SMALLEY (noun)
  The noun RICHARD E. SMALLEY has 1 sense:

1. American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)

  Familiarity information: RICHARD E. SMALLEY used as a noun is very rare.

• RICHARD E. SMALLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Richard E. Smalley; Richard Errett Smalley; Richard Smalley; Smalley

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)