Birth Date: June 6, 1943 U.S. Citizen
Children: Chad R. Smalley (born June 8, 1969), Preston C. Smalley (born August 8, 1997)
Education
Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1961 - 1963
B.S. (Chem.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1965
M.A., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1971
Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1973
Industrial Position
Research Chemist, Shell Chemical Company, 1965 - 1969
Academic positions
University Professor, Rice University, 2002 - present
Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Rice University, 1982 - present
Professor of Physics, Rice University, 1990 - present
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 1981 - 1982
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 1980 - 1981
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 1976 - 1980
Postdoctoral Research Associate, The James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago (with D. H. Levy), 1973 - 1976
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University (with E. R. Bernstein), 1969 - 1973
Honorary Degrees
Doctor honoris causa, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, 1991
Doctor of Science, The University of Chicago, 1995
Doctor of Science, The University of Michigan, 1997
Doctor of Science, The University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Doctor of Science, Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003
Doctor of Science, The University of Richmond, 2004
Doctor of Science, The Technion, 2004
Fellowships, Awards and Prizes
Harold W. Dodds Fellow, Princeton University, 1973
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1978 - 1980, Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1987
Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, 1991 (Awarded by American Physical Society)
Popular Science Magazine Grand Award in Science & Technology, 1991
APS International Prize for New Materials, 1992 (Joint with R. F. Curl and H. W. Kroto)
Jack S. Kilby Award, 1992 (North Dallas Chamber of Commerce)
Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award, 1992 (U.S. Department of Energy)
Welch Award in Chemistry, 1992 (Robert A. Welch Foundation)
Auburn-G.M. Kosolapoff Award, 1992 (Auburn Section of American Chemical Society)
Southwest Regional Award, 1992 (American Chemical Society)
William H. Nichols Medal, 1993 (New York Section of American Chemical Society)
The John Scott Award, 1993 (The City of Philadelphia)
Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (European Physical Society)
Harrison Howe Award, 1994 (Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society)
Madison Marshall Award, 1995 (North Alabama Section of the American Chemical Society)
The Franklin Medal, 1996 (The Committee on Science and the Arts of The Franklin Institute)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996 (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Rice University Homecoming Queen, 1996 (Rice University Undergraduates)
Distinguished Civililan Public Service Award, 1997 (Department of the Navy)
American Carbon Society Medal, 1997
Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise, 1998 (Chemical & Engineering News)
Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, 2002, University of California at Los Angeles
Memberships
American Chemical Society, American Physical Society (Fellow),
American Institute of Physics, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Materials Research Society, Sigma Xi
National Academy of Sciences, 1990
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991, AAAS Fellow 2003
Other
Director, Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University, 2003 – present
Chairman, Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. 2000 - present
Director, Rice Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology (CNST), 1996 - 2001
Chairman, Rice Quantum Institute, 1986 - 1996
