Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation
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content: Total Running Time: 28:48, Camera 1

Introductory remarks by Art Molella. Kroto begins by showing slides to students and asking what they think a scientist looks like. Various caricatures of scientists are shown. Kroto breaks down the stereotype associated with scientists. Discusses chemistry and the molecule nitrosoethane, the story of bucky balls, and galaxies and stars exploding and spreading carbon atoms. Demonstrates an algebra theory of (faces + corners - edges = 2). Shows slides with examples of pentagonal structures in insects, sea animals, tortoise shells, and Buckminster Fuller's dome in Montreal, Canada.
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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)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2001 October 1
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content: Box 3, Video RV 792.3
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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