title: How the news that we were not the first to conceive of soccer ball C60 got to us.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Department, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, USA. rfcurl@rice.edu
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Curl
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Smalley
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kroto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Heath
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history*; D037741:Fullerenes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure
chemical_list: D037741:Fullerenes; D002244:Carbon; C069837:fullerene C60