[1] "I am a devout atheist -- nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator." (From his Nobel Autobiography).
Father: Heinz Kroto
Mother: Edith
Wife: Margaret Henrietta Hunter (m. 1963, two sons)
Son: Stephen
Son: David
High School: Bolton School
University: BSc, University of Sheffield (1961, honours)
University: PhD, University of Sheffield (1964)
Professor: University of Sussex (1967-85)
Professor: Chemistry, University of Sussex (1985-)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1996 (with Robert F. Curl, Jr. and Richard E. Smalley)
Knighthood 1996
Faraday Prize 2001
Copley Medal 2004
Bell Laboratories 1966
Royal Society 1990
World Technology Network
Polish Ancestry Paternal (from Bojanowo)
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
German Ancestry Maternal (from Berlin)
AKA Harold Walter Krotoschiner