Alan MacDiarmid

Alan MacDiarmid ONZ FRS
Alan MacDiarmid in Beijing, China, 2005
Born	Alan Graham MacDiarmid 14 April 1927 Masterton, New Zealand
Died	7 February 2007 (aged 79) Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	New Zealand, United States
Alma mater	Victoria University of Wellington (BSc) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MS) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	The Francis J. Clamer Medal (1993) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) William H. Nichols Medal (2002) Fellow of the Royal Society (2003)[1] NAS Member (2002) Friendship Award (2004)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania University of St Andrews University of Texas at Dallas
Thesis	The chemistry of some new derivatives of the silyl radical (1955)

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS^[2][1] (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.^[3][4][5][6]