Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation
odd: label: General
content: Total Running Time: 30:19, Camera 1

Opens with a discussion of nanotechnology and shows video footage explaining the construction and properties of fullerenes. Kroto states that the twenty-first century will be the century of nanoscale materials. Shows slides of molecular art-hemoglobin and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). 

Question and answer with students:

Did people know they were using bucky balls when they lit a candle?

Was winning the Nobel prize your shining moment?

How can your discovery benefit mankind?

Can superconducting materials be made using carbon fullerenes?

Can society use C60 to make automobiles pollute less?

If C60 are on meteorites, are they on other planets?

Is it better to conduct research independently or collaboratively?
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview
label: See more items in
content: Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview / Series 3: Reference Videos and Audio Cassette / Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation (Viewing Copy 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2001 October 1
container: label: Container
content: Box 3, Video RV 792.4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images