How was Robert F. Curl Jr. awarded the Nobel Prize?

Name: Robert F. Curl Jr. 
Country: United States.
Date of Birth: 23 August 1933.
Died: 3 July 2022
The subject of Study: Carbon Cluster fullerene.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for their research on the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials.