============================================================= This is the first picture of a truncated icosahedron. This picture is taken from Libellus de quinque corpibus regularibus, a book by the Italian renaissance painter and mathematician Pier della Francesca (1420-1492).
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Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm, Sweden

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the
1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
jointly to
Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA
Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton,UK
Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA,
for their discovery of fullerenes, a new form of the element carbon.

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Mass spectroscopic patttern with peak at 60 carbon atoms.

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The truncated icosahedron structure of the fullerene C60.

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