Frases de Robert Curl

Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. é um químico estadunidense.

Conjuntamente com Harold Kroto e Richard Smalley, foi agraciado com o Nobel de Química de 1996 pela sua descoberta dos fulerenos.

Mediante experiências com laser com grafite a mais de 104 °C, descobriu a alotropia do carbono, em 1996. Wikipedia

✵ 23. Agosto 1933

Robert Curl: Frases em inglês

“In science, conjecture drives both experiment and theory for it is only by forming conjectures (hypotheses) that we can make the direction of our experiments and theories informed. If such and such is true, then I should be able to do this experiment and look for this particular result or I should be able to find this theoretical formulation. Conversely, experiment and theory drive conjecture. One makes a startling observation or has a sudden insight and begins to speculate on its significance and implications and to draw possible conclusions”

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Robert Curl

conjecture <br class="br">in his Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/curl-lecture.html, December 7, 1996, Dawn of the Fullerenes: Experiment and Conjecture