Awards & Winners

Alan MacDiarmid

Date of Birth 14-April-1927
Place of Birth Masterton
(New Zealand, Wellington Region)
Nationality New Zealand
Also know as Alan Graham MacDiarmid
Profession Chemist, Scientist
Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

Awards by Alan MacDiarmid

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alan MacDiarmid.

2000


Rutherford Medal
(His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers \u2014 plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work.)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for the discovery and development of conductive polymers)