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Why is the element bucky called a buckyball?
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Buckyballs are a molecule made up of carbon atoms arranged in a C60 shape. C60 is named after the Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Buckyballs were first discovered in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, and Harold Kroto, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for their discovery.