Editing Richard Smalley (section)

==Early life and education==
Smalley, the youngest of 4 siblings, was born in [[Akron]], [[Ohio]] on June 6, 1943, to Frank Dudley Smalley, Jr., and Esther Virginia Rhoads.<ref name="Legacy.com">{{cite web|title=Dr. Richard Errett Smalley|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=richard-errett-smalley&pid=15564204|access-date=July 18, 2016|website=Legacy.com}}</ref>  He grew up in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], Missouri.<ref name="Feder">{{cite news|last1=Feder|first1=Barnaby J.|title=Richard E. Smalley, 62, Dies; Chemistry Nobel Winner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/science/richard-e-smalley-62-dies-chemistry-nobel-winner.html|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=October 29, 2005}}</ref> Richard Smalley credits his father, mother and aunt as formative influences in industry, science and chemistry. His father, Frank Dudley Smalley, Jr. worked with mechanical and electrical equipment and eventually became CEO of a trade journal for farm implements called ''Implement and Tractor''. His mother, Esther Rhoads Smalley, completed her B.A. Degree while Richard was a teenager. She was particularly inspired by mathematician Norman N. Royall Jr., who taught Foundations of Physical Science, and communicated her love of science to her son through long conversations and joint activities.  Smalley's maternal aunt, pioneering female chemist [[Sara Jane Rhoads]], interested Smalley in the field of chemistry, letting him work in her organic chemistry laboratory, and suggesting that he attend Hope College, which had a strong chemistry program.<ref name="NobelBio">{{cite web|title=Richard E. Smalley – Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/smalley-bio.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>

Smalley attended [[Hope College]] for two years before transferring to the [[University of Michigan]] where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1965, performing undergraduate research in the laboratory of [[Raoul Kopelman]].<ref name=Hafner>{{cite journal|last=Hafner|first=Jason H.|title=Obituary: Richard Errett Smalley|journal=Physics Today|date=May 2006|volume=59|issue=5|pages=71–72|doi=10.1063/1.2216973|bibcode=2006PhT....59e..71H|doi-access=free}}</ref> Between his studies, he also worked in industry, where he developed his unique managerial style. He received his Ph.D. from [[Princeton University]] in 1973 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "The lower electronic states of 1,3,5 (sym)-triazine", under the supervision of Elliot R. Bernstein.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smalley|first=Richard Errett|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/1639967|title=The lower electronic states of 1,3,5 (sym)-triazine|date=1974|language=en}}</ref>  He did postdoctoral work at the [[University of Chicago]] from 1973 to 1976, with [[Donald Levy]] and [[Lennard Wharton]] where he was a pioneer in the development of [[supersonic]] beam [[laser spectroscopy]].<ref name="Hargittai">{{cite book|last1=Hargittai|first1=István|last2=Hargittai|first2=Magdolna|title=Candid science|date=2000|publisher=Imperial College Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-86094-151-1|pages=363–373|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_u3CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA363|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>