DONALD R. HUFFMAN
The production of fullerene-rich soot by resistive heating made possible the development of fullerene science and technology. Wolfgang Krätschmer and Donald Huffman and their graduate students invented this simple technique and published it in 1990.1 The first volume of the Candid Science series contained an interview with Wolfgang Krätschmer.2 The present account gives Donald Huffman's perspective, based on a conversation with him at the beginning of September 1999, at the University of Arizona in Tucson. This account contains impressions from subsequent conversations with Wolfgang Krätschmer too. It is further augmented by a pictorial report of a meeting we had with Huffman and Krätschmer in which they kindly recreated the experiment in which they had produced measurable quantities of buckminsterfullerene.
