Alan Graham MacDiarmid:
Alan Graham MacDiarmid was a New Zealand chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
April 14, 1927 in Masterton, New Zealand
Death:
February 7, 2007 in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Claim to Fame:
MacDiarmid was a New Zealand chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa for discovering a method to create conductive polymers. Conductive polymers are organic polymers that are modified to conduct electricity and are used as anti-static material and in battery technologies.
