Franklin Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1996 Distinguished Civilian Public Service Award, Department of the Navy, 1997 American Carbon Society Medal, 1997 Top 75 Distinguished Contributors, Chemical & Engineering News, 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award, Small Times Magazine, 2003 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, University of California at Los Angeles, 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award, Hope College, 2005 50th Anniversary Visionary Award, SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005 National Historic Chemical Landmark, American Chemical Society, 2010 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award, Division of History of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2015 References External links Smalley-Curl Institute – Rice University Smalley Group – Rice University Interview: Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Richard Smalley – PBS Online NewsHour, "The Future of Fuel: Advances in Hydrogen Fuel Technology" – Chemistry.org 1943 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American chemists Nobel laureates in Chemistry American Nobel laureates Deaths from leukemia American nanotechnologists Princeton University alumni Hope College alumni University of Chicago alumni People from Akron, Ohio Rice University faculty University of Michigan alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Deaths from cancer in Texas Spectroscopists Carbon scientists Christian Old Earth creationists American Christian creationists Mass spectrometrists Sloan Research Fellows Scientists from Missouri Chemists from Missouri Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri