Alan MacDiarmid

Alan Graham MacDiarmid (born April 24 1927) is a chemist. He was one of three people awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on conductive polymers.

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April 24 - 1927 - Chemist - 2000 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Conductive polymers

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MacDiarmid was born in Masterton, New Zealand. His family was relatively poor, and the Great Depression made life difficult. At around age ten, he developed an interest in chemistry from one of his father's old textbooks, and he instructed himself on the subject from this book and from library books. He later worked as an assistant at the chemistry department of Victoria University of Wellington, and eventually studied there. He graduated in 1951 with first class honours, and won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Wisconsin for a PhD, which he received in 1953. He received another Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1955. He later worked at the University of St Andrews and is currently faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Masterton - New Zealand - Great Depression - Chemistry - Victoria University of Wellington - Fulbright Fellowship - University of Wisconsin - PhD - 1953 - University of Cambridge - 1955 - University of St Andrews - University of Pennsylvania - University of Texas at Dallas

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The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University is named after him.

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