This book documents the fascinating story of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer-ball-shaped cage of carbon atoms that has seized the imagination of research chemists around the world. There is a dramatic human story in the personalities involved in making the discovery (research teams in Britain, the USA, and Germany), but the discovery itself is a paradigm for the way science works - collaborative research efforts, serendipity, the structure of research groups (who does what), "big" science versus "little" science, the motivation of fame and recognition for a major discovery.
- ISBN10 0198557906
- ISBN13 9780198557906
- Publish Date 1 November 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 326
- Language English