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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.