Donald Huffman

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Donald R. Huffman (born 1935) is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arizona. With Wolfgang Krätschmer, he developed a technique in 1990 for the simple production of large quantities of C₆₀, or Buckminsterfullerene. Previously, in 1982~1983, he and Krätschmer had found, in a UV spectrum, the first signal of C₆₀ ever observed.

Huffman was featured prominently in "Race to Catch a Buckyball", a 1995 episode of the Nova documentary series.

• Bohren, Craig F. and Donald R. Huffman, Absorption and scattering of light by small particles, New York : Wiley, 1998, 530 p., ,

• Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley)
• Materials Research Society, Gold Medal 1993, For Synthesis and Pioneering Study of Fullerenes

• List of textbooks in electromagnetism