Definition of Robert Curl

1. Noun. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933).

Exact synonyms: Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Curl

Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Barany
Robert Bartlett
Robert Benchley
Robert Boyle
Robert Brown
Robert Browning
Robert Bruce Mathias
Robert Bunsen
Robert Burns
Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Charles Benchley
Robert Charles Venturi
Robert Clive
Robert Curl (current term)
Robert De Niro
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Peary
Robert E Lee's Birthday
Robert E Lee Day
Robert Edward Lee
Robert Edwin Peary
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Robert F. Curl
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Robert Frost
Robert Fulton
Robert Graves

Literary usage of Robert Curl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Universal Biographical Dictionary, Containing the Lives of the Most by Charles N. Baldwin (1833)
"crimes, however exorbitant, which he would not commit. DUDLEY, sir Robert, son of Robert, curl ef Leicester, born at Sheen, in Surrey, 1573, иг .j 1639. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All by Richard Alfred Davenport (1832)
"WALPOLE, ROBERT, curl of Oxford, a statesman, was born, in 1676, at Hough- ton, his father's seat, in Norfolk, and wae educated at Eton, and at King's ..."

3. The United States Vs. Andres Castillero: New Almaden : Transcript of the Record by Andrés Castillero (1861)
"... John Alison, Robert Curl, Wm. B. McElroy, A. Richardson, and Martin Cloud, •who were duly sworn and ..."

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