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LECTURE Sir Harold Kroto
Fellow of the Royal Society and Research Professor, University of Sussex

Science, a Round Peg in a Square World

Monday, 18 March 2002
Lecture Room - 6 pm

Sir Harold Kroto is the Royal Society Research Professor in the School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science at the University of Sussex. In 1996 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and in 2001 the Michael Faraday Award, given annually to a scientist who, in the opinion of the Royal Society, has done most to further public communication of science, engineering or technology in the UK.

This is the first in a series of annual lectures by distinguished scientists, addressed specifically to artists and to scholars in the humanities.

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