Harry Kroto has been an active researcher for most of his career. In 1996 he was knighted for his contributions to chemistry, and later that year won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of the C60 Buckminsterfullerene, a new form of carbon. His is chairman of the board of the Vega Science Trust, which produces science programmes for network television, and is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Univeristy of Sussex.
We visited him at The University of Sussex and asked him about being a researcher.