Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Harold Walter Kroto NPG x87221

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Chemist. Kroto initiated work on carbon chain molecules, combining research in synthesis, spectroscopy and radioastronomy. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerenes or 'buckyballs', hollow carbon molecules with the potential for extensive manipulation. '...my research is in nanoscience and nanotechnology. One day this field should lead to tiny molecular machines which can buzz around inside us, supercomputers in our pockets as well as construction materials 100 times stronger than steel.'

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.