Donald R. Huffman (born 1935) is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the

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. With Wolfgang Krätschmer, he developed a technique in 1990 for the simple production of large quantities of C₆₀, or

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. Previously, in 1982~1983, he and Krätschmer had found, in a UV spectrum, the first signal of C₆₀ ever observed. Huffman was featured prominently in the PBS Nova documentary, originally aired in 1995, "Race to Catch a Buckyball".

Bibliography

* Bohren, Craig F. and Donald R. Huffman, Absorption and scattering of light by small particles, New York : Wiley, 1998, 530 p., ,

Awards

*Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer,

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and Richard Smalley) *Materials Research Society, Gold Medal 1993, For Synthesis and Pioneering Study of Fullerenes

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