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Sir Harry Kroto's design awards include:

• Sunday Times Book Jacket Design competition (1964)
• the Moet Hennessy/Louis Vuitton Science pour l’Art Prize (1994)

Kroto has a citation in the international design annual “Modern Publicity“ (1979) for the cover of “Chemistry at Sussex“. He designed the Nobel UK Stamp for Chemistry in 2001 and has exhibited in the Royal Academy (London) Summer Exhibition, 2004.

Sir Harry Kroto's design for the UK stamp for the Nobel Centenary (Chemistry), 2001.

Chatt Medal designed by Sir Harry Kroto and Jeff Leigh

Design for a molecular sciences T-shirt (MOLS)

Covers

Posters

Logos

Artwork

Drawings

Sir Harry Kroto's drawing of a car from school

Sir Harry Kroto's drawing of Elizabeth Taylor from school

Sir Harry Kroto's drawing of Pat Crowley from school

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On display

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

In 2004, Allen Jones and David Hockney curated the RA Summer Exhibition. They devoted one room to people who use their hands to draw as an aid to their work.

This man, Sir Harry Kroto – he’s a Nobel prize winner because he discovered a new carbon element. He said he went to art school and wanted to be a designer, but he somehow got into chemistry. He says, “Well, I was just playing and it was a conceptual argument about whether you could close this sphere with an octagon.”

He thought about this then he looked at Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. Through doing this he discovered a molecule that was exactly that construction, which was the new carbon element for which he has won a Nobel prize.

He’s totally messianic about his commitment to drawing. It’s just making the point that drawing is a very basic way of communicating and rationalising one’s ideas. The fact that it’s somehow seen as a recreational pastime now in educational establishments is a shame.

Allen Jones

Kroto added "Allen did not remember things perfectly but he got the spirit right!"

Articles about the exhibition:

• Top Drawers, the Guardian
• When David Hockney, Allen Jones and Gordon Ramsay met for lunch, Royal Academy
• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004, studio international

Light ceiling design at Leibniz University Hamburg

The design was based on an icosahedral X-ray crystal pattern.

I managed to get Google to celebrate C60’s 25th birthday on 4 September 1985, with a rotating Buckyball. This stimulated Google to develop more dynamic doodles.

Sir Harry Kroto

Kroto research institute

Sculpture outside the Kroto Research Institute.

Logos on the entrance to the Kroto Research Institute

Sir Harry Kroto's artwork on the walls

Sir Harry Kroto's artwork on the walls

Logos on the entrance to the Kroto Research Institute

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