Alan g macdiarmid biography

I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealand on April 14, , and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, although I became a naturalized.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, New Zealand's third Nobel Laureate, was born in Masterton on 14 April , the youngest of five children of Archibald Campbell.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April – 7 February ) was a.

New Zealand-born American chemist who, with Alan J. Heeger and Shirakawa Hideki, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April – 7 February ) was a..

Alan MacDiarmid, co-discoverer of the field of conducting polymers, more commonly known as "synthetic metals," was the chemist responsible in 1977 for the chemical and electrochemical doping of polyacetylene, (CH)_x, the "prototype" conducting polymer, and the "rediscovery" of polyaniline, now the foremost industrial conducting polymer.

In 1973, he began research on (SN)_x, an unusual polymeric material with metallic conductivity.

His interest in organic conducting polymers began in 1975 when he was introduced to a new form of polyacetylene by Dr. Hideki Shirakawa at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The ensuing collaboration between MacDiarmid, Shirakawa and Alan Heeger (then at the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania) led to the historic discovery of metallic conductivity in an organic polymer.

This initial discovery and ensuing studies, in collaboration with Shirakawa, resulted in the first chemical doping of (CH)_x and detailed physics st