Buckminsterfullerene (C60)

The fullerenes are molecules composed entirely of carbon,
in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical
fullerenes are sometimes called buckyballs. The C60 variant is often compared to the typical white and black soccer football. Cylindrical fullerenes are called buckytubes. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of a sheet of linked hexagonal rings, but they contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings that prevent the sheet from being planar. Buckminsterfullerene (C60) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architect who popularized the geodesic dome. Therefore the entire family of similar molecules was named fullerenes.