Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer ball shaped form of carbon better known as buckyballs. On June 28, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting] about science as a philosophical construct: “I’m going to talk about what science is because it’s a totally misunderstood sort of subject
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Nobelist Kroto: What’s The Evidence For What You Accept?