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Alan G. MacDiarmid
Full Name of the recipient | Alan G. MacDiarmid |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 2000 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Alan J. Heeger (33.3%) Hideki Shirakawa (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for the discovery and development of conductive polymers |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Place of Birth | Masterton, New Zealand NZL |
Date of Birth | 14 April 1927 |
Age at the time of Award | 72 years |
Place of Death | Drexel Hill, PA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 7 February 2007 |