Robert Curl Autographs
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.
Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was the son of a Methodist minister. Due to his father's missionary work, his family moved several times within southern and southwestern Texas, and the elder Curl was involved in starting the San Antonio Medical Center's Methodist Hospital. Curl attributes his interest in chemistry to a chemistry set he received as a nine-year-old, recalling that he ruined the finish on his mother's porcelain stove when nitric acid boiled over onto it. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. His high school offered only one year of chemistry instruction, but in his senior year his chemistry teacher gave him special projects to work on.
Curl received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Rice Institute (now Rice University) in 1954. He was attracted to the reputation of both the school's academics and football team, and the fact that at the time it charged no tuition. He earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. At Berkeley, he worked in the laboratory of Kenneth Pitzer, then dean of the college of chemistry, with whom he would become a lifelong collaborator. Curl's graduate research involved performing infrared spectroscopy to determine the bond angle of disiloxane.
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Current items with a signature of Robert Curl
These are the most current items with a signature of Robert Curl that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Robert Curl Nobel Prize Chemistry Buckminsterfullerene Signed Autograph Lecture | $599.99 |  |
| Robert Curl Nobel Prize Chemistry Buckminsterfullerene Signed Autograph Lecture | $599.99 | |
Traded items with a signature of Robert Curl
The most expensive item with a signature of Robert Curl (Paul Berg Robert Curl Arieh Warshel Brian Kobilka Nobel Prize Signed Autograph) was sold in August 2025 for $399.99 while the cheapest item (ROBERT CURL SIGNED INDEX CARD WW2 VETERAN MADE 1ST WAVE LANDING AT D-DAY OMAHA) found a new owner for $0.59 in June 2016. The month with the most items sold (3) was August 2025 with an average selling price of $14.00 for an autographed item of Robert Curl. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $216.24 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.51 was April 2014. In average, an autographed item from Robert Curl is worth $9.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Robert Curl were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry Robert Curl Signed 3X4 Color Photo Todd Mueller COA | $69.99 |  |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry Robert Curl Signed 3X4 Color Photo Todd Mueller COA | $69.99 | |
| Paul Berg Robert Curl Arieh Warshel Brian Kobilka Nobel Prize Signed Autograph | $399.99 | |
| Paul Berg Robert Curl Arieh Warshel Brian Kobilka Nobel Prize Signed Autograph | $399.99 | |
| Richard Smalley & Robert Curl Autographed Signed Cachet Envelope AMCo COA 30999 | $45.98 | |
| Richard Smalley & Robert Curl Autographed Signed Cachet Envelope AMCo COA 30999 | $45.98 | |
| ROBERT CURL Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - NOBLE PRIZE CHEMISTRY 1996 | $2.25 | |
| ROBERT CURL Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - NOBLE PRIZE CHEMISTRY 1996 | $2.25 | |
| Robert Curl Harry Kroto autograph Nobel Prize Chemistry 1996 Cut Signature Encor | $216.24 | |
| Robert Curl Harry Kroto autograph Nobel Prize Chemistry 1996 Cut Signature Encor | $216.24 | |
| ROBERT CURL NOBEL CHEMISTRY SIGNED CARD WITH FORMULA | $5.00 | |
| Signed Nobel prize in Chemistry Robert Curl | $14.00 | |
| Signed Nobel prize in Chemistry Robert Curl | $14.00 | |
| Signed Nobel prize in Chemistry Robert Curl | $14.00 | |
| Signed Nobel prize in Chemistry Robert Curl | $14.00 | |
