Harold Kroto is an English chemist of German origin. Following a stint as a researcher at the Canadian National Research Council from 1964 to 1966 he dedicated himself to his academic career at a prestigious English university.
In 1995, together with Patrick Reams, he created the Vega Science Trust and worked on scientific videos produced by the BBC.
In 1996, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley (professors at Rice University, USA) for the discovery of the fullerenes, new carbon allotropes.
He is also an expert of science communication (he received the Faraday prize for scientific communication of Royal Society) and he is engaged in the fight for human rights through his activism in Amnesty International.
Harold Kroto