Donald R. Huffman (born 1935) is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arizona.[1] With Wolfgang Krätschmer, he developed a technique in 1990 for the simple production of large quantities of C60, or Buckminsterfullerene.[2][3][4] Previously, in 1982~1983, he and Krätschmer had found, in a UV spectrum, the first signal of C60 ever observed.[5]
Huffman was featured prominently in "Race to Catch a Buckyball", a 1995 episode of the Novadocumentary series.[6]
Bibliography
Bohren, Craig F. and Donald R. Huffman, Absorption and scattering of light by small particles, New York : Wiley, 1998, 530 p., ISBN0-471-29340-7, ISBN978-0-471-29340-8
Awards
Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley)
Materials Research Society, Gold Medal 1993, For Synthesis and Pioneering Study of Fullerenes[7]
^Eberson, Lennart (1996). "[Nobel] Award Ceremony Speech". Retrieved June 19, 2014. Only in 1990 were physicists Donald Huffman and Wolfgang Krätschmer able to produce gram-sized quantities of C60 using a method that could be quickly and inexpensively duplicated in any laboratory. This made it possible to apply the whole battery of structural determination methods and show that C60 really had the structure its discoverers had hypothesized.
^Krätschmer, Wolfgang; Lamb, Lowell D.; Fostiropoulos, Konstantinos; Huffman, Donald R. (27 September 1990). "Solid C60: a new form of carbon". Nature. 347 (6291). Nature Publishing Group: 354–358. doi:10.1038/347354a0. S2CID4359360.
^Huffman, Donald R. (November 1991). "Solid C60". Physics Today. 44 (11): 22–29. doi:10.1063/1.881295.
