Buckyball Logo Google Doodle, 25th anniversary and history of BuckyBall

Buckyball doodle via google.com

The buckyball was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Texas, and named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, noted for popularising the geodesic dome.

The discovery was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, which had been discovered in Rice University, Texas. The group of scientists involved included Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, Sean O’Brien, James Heath, and Harold Kroto.

To mark the discovery of this specially shaped molecule composed entirely of carbon on 4 September 1985, Google has changed its logo for  buckyball for the day.

Buckyball is the colloquial name used to describe a spherical fullerene – an abbreviation of buckminsterfullerene, its full name.