Dr Brian Iddon - Sir Harry Kroto 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, and Boltonian

Brian met Harry Kroto, when he was a Parliamentary adviser to the Royal Society of Chemistry and attended the RSC’s Council Meetings in Burlington House, London. He will be talking about the Kroto(schiner) family, Harry’s education in Bolton and the discovery which led to the award of his Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for co-discovering the new carbon allotrope, Buckminsterfullerene, was knighted in the same year and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2002–2004. It’s a fascinating story.