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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).
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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 ..."