Alan Graham MacDiarmid .
| Alan Graham McDiarmid | |
|---|---|
| Alan Graham MacDiarmid | |
| Date of Birth | April 14, 1927 |
| Place of Birth | New Zealand] |
| Date of death | February 7, 2007 (aged 79) |
| A place of death | Philadelphia , USA |
| A country | New Zealand, USA |
| Scientific field | physical chemistry , polymer chemistry |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | University of Victoria ( Wellington ) |
| Known as | developed methods for producing conductive polymers |
| Awards and prizes |  Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( 2000 )  |
He graduated from Victoria University College in Wellington (1951) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison ( Ph.D. , 1953) and Cambridge University (Ph.D., 1955). He worked at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland , since 1956 at the University of Pennsylvania (since 1964 - professor).
The most important scientific works are devoted to the physical chemistry of polymers . Together with Alan Heather and Hideki Shirakawa, he developed methods for producing organic polymer materials, the electrical conductivity of which is comparable to the electrical conductivity of metals .
The Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology ( University of Victoria, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology ) was named in honor of A. Macdiarmid.
Awards and recognition
- 1982 - Century Award
- 1989 - John Scott Medal
- 2000 -
- 2000 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2003 - [1]
- 2004 -
Literature
- Shirakawa H., McDiarmid A., Heeger A. Twenty-five Years of Conducting Polymers. // Chem. Commun. 2003.P. 1-4.
- Zelenin K.N., Nozdrachev A.D., Polyakov E.L. Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for 100 Years. - SPb .: Humanism, 2003.872 p.