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Definition of Smalley

1. Noun. American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943).

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Literary usage of Smalley

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

1. American Book Prices Current (1919)
"Apr. 17, 1882, to GW Smalley. " The only thing that really irritates me is the being coached ... With a sonnet on second page, on the same subject. Smalley ..."

2. List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1883 by Henry Bailey Peirce, Massachusetts General Court (1885)
"... of Sandwich, may take the name of Isaac Kimball Chipman ; James Smalley, ... Samuel Smalley, and his minor children, Lot Smalley, Sally Smalley, ..."

3. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1881)
"Smalley AND ANOTHER V. ... By indenture of lease, dated the 30th of December, 1870, the plaintiff Smalley demised the said ..."

4. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1857)
"His parents, Benjamin and Mary Smalley, were both professors of religion and sustained a good Christian ..."

5. History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine: From Its First by Joseph Williamson (1913)
"Smalley, Albert Benson, b. 2 August, 1876; s. Alexander D. Smalley and Eliza ... Smalley, Eva Adell, b. 14 July, 1880; d. Alexander D. Smalley and Eliza W. ..."

6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"This little book is so good that we wish its author could have extended his researches, for he cannot have exhausted the subject. * * * Smalley. By the Rev. ..."

7. The American Probate Reports: Containing Recent Cases of General Value by William Whitehead Ladd, Charles Fisk Beach, Abraham Adolf Greenhoot (1881)
"Whereupon the said Hannah M.' Smalley gave notice that she claimed an appeal from ... Because the said Archelaus Smalley, on the first day of May, AD 1871, ..."

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