ROBERT CURL

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• ROBERT CURL (noun)
  The noun ROBERT CURL has 1 sense:

1. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

  Familiarity information: ROBERT CURL used as a noun is very rare.

• ROBERT CURL (noun)

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Meaning:

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Curl; Robert Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Floyd Curl Jr.

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)