Harry Kroto Interview
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content: Total Running Time: 26:20, Camera 1

Interviewer: Art Molella, Director, Lemelson Center

Kroto begins by discussing his background and growing up in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Bolton is an industrial town in the north of England that contributed to his interest in technology. Kroto's early childhood is marked by tinkering with Meccano and Erector sets, and building and taking apart items. Kroto had several mentors while in school with Mr. Higginson, an art teacher being the most important. Discussion of chemistry work and what launched his interest in chemistry-his doctoral work at the University of Sheffield. At University, Kroto studied spectroscopy of free radicals produced by flash photolysis. Further discussion of Kroto's work in Ottawa, Canada, at the National Research Council, discovery of C60, and influence of Buckminster Fuller's work.
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content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview
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content: Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview / Series 3: Reference Videos and Audio Cassette / Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation (Viewing Copy 1)
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content: 2001 October 1
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content: Box 3, Video RV 792.1
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images