Donald Huffman

Donald R. Huffman (born 1935) is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arizona.^[1] With Wolfgang Krätschmer, he developed a technique in 1990 for the simple production of large quantities of C₆₀, or Buckminsterfullerene.^[2][3][4] Previously, in 1982~1983, he and Krätschmer had found, in a UV spectrum, the first signal of C₆₀ ever observed.^[5]

Dr. Huffman was featured prominently in the PBS Nova documentary, originally aired in 1995, "Race to Catch a Buckyball".^[6]

Bibliography

• Bohren, Craig F. and Donald R. Huffman, Absorption and scattering of light by small particles, New York : Wiley, 1998, 530 p., ISBN 0-471-29340-7, ISBN 978-0-471-29340-8

Awards

• Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley)

Notes

1. "The University of Arizona Department of Physics". 2006–2014. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
2. Eberson, Lennart (1996). "[Nobel] Award Ceremony Speech". Retrieved June 19, 2014. Only in 1990 were physicists Donald Huffman and Wolfgang Krätschmer able to produce gram-sized quantities of C₆₀ using a method that could be quickly and inexpensively duplicated in any laboratory. This made it possible to apply the whole battery of structural determination methods and show that C₆₀ really had the structure its discoverers had hypothesized.
3. Krätschmer, Wolfgang; Lamb, Lowell D.; Fostiropoulos, Konstantinos; Huffman, Donald R. (27 September 1990). "Solid C₆₀: a new form of carbon". Nature (Nature Publishing Group) (347): 354–358. doi:10.1038/347354a0. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
4. Huffman, Donald R. (November 1991). "Solid C₆₀". Physics Today 44 (11): 22–29. doi:10.1063/1.881295.
5. Hargittai, Balazs; Hargittai, István (2005). Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists. Imperial College Press. p. 393.
6. "Race to Catch a Buckyball". NOVA Teachers. 19 December 1995. PBS. Retrieved 19 June 2014.