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- Robert Curl, 1954, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
 
- Richard Smalley, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
 
- Robert Woodrow Wilson, 1957, awarded 1978 in physics for
the discovery of cosmic
microwave background radiation
 
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