Buckminster Fuller - the Bucky Ball Thank you youngling Ogopogo007
Yes I remember it well. The realization that carbon 60 was showing up unexpectedly in carbon testing and the first postulation that carbon atoms were forming soccer ball shapes. Those were heady days.
The Carbon nano-tube or cylinder if you prefer to call it was a natural progression by adding a belt of carbon atoms in the middle of the ball.
What cool stuff....