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| Name: | The Nobel-Prize Winning Naturist - Alan Macdiarmid Remembered |
| Authors: | Atkinson, Kent |
| Published Date: | 8 Feb. 2007 |
| Indexed Date: | 7 Nov. 2023 |
| Web Link: | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-nobel-prize-winning-naturist-alan-macdiarmid-remembered/57JJMRUM7B24DJUUAQBWKTGP3Q/ |
| Index Status: | Complete |
| Original Language: | English |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction |
| Citation: | Atkinson, Kent. “The Nobel-Prize Winning Naturist - Alan Macdiarmid Remembered.” The New Zealand Herald, 8 Feb. 2007, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-nobel-prize-winning-naturist-alan-macdiarmid-remembered/57JJMRUM7B24DJUUAQBWKTGP3Q/ |
Summary
New Zealand's only surviving Nobel laureate, research chemist Alan Graham MacDiarmid, died at 79 years old in Philadelphia. He won the 2000 Nobel prize for chemistry with his discovery that plastic could conduct electricity, which led to technological advancements.