`Alan Graham MacDiarmid` Biography - Nobel Prize Winner (2000)

Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ, (born April 14, 1927) is a chemist. He was one of three people awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on conductive polymers. 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 in the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews and is currently faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas at Dallas. MacDiarmid still maintains a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, though mostly travels around the world for speaking engagements that impress upon listeners the value of globalizing the effort of innovation in the 21st century. Last instructing in 2001, MacDiarmid elected to lead a small seminar of incoming freshmen about his research activities. The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University is named after him. He was awarded New Zealand highest honour ONZ in 2001.

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