Alan G. MacDiarmid - Wikipedia, Den Fria Encyklopedin Alan G. MacDiarmid, född i Masterton, Nya Zeeland 1927, amerikansk Nobelpristagarei kemi år 2000. Han tilldelades priset för upptäckten och utvecklandet http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_G_MacDiarmid
Extractions: Alan G. MacDiarmid , f¶dd i Masterton, Nya Zeeland , amerikansk Nobelpristagare i kemi ¥r . Han tilldelades priset f¶r " uppt¤ckten och utvecklandet av ledande polymerer ". Han delade priset med med amerikanen Alan Heeger och japanen Hideki Shirakawa Han ¤r professor i kemi vid University of Pennsylvania. Vanligtvis leder plaster inte elektrisk str¶m. I sj¤lva verket anv¤nds plast just som isolering kring koppartr¥darna i vanliga elsladdar. Det har dock visat sig vara m¶jligt att g¶ra vissa plaster elektriskt ledande. Plaster ¤r polymerer , molekyler som upprepar sin struktur regelbundet i l¥nga kedjor. F¶r att en polymer ska kunna leda elektrisk str¶m m¥ste den best¥ av omv¤xlande enkel- och dubbelbindningar mellan kolatomerna . Den m¥ste ocks¥ "dopas", vilket inneb¤r att man plockar bort elektroner (genom oxidation ) eller f¶r in extra elektroner (genom reduktion ). Dessa "h¥l" eller extra elektroner kan r¶ra sig l¤ngs polymerkedjan - den blir elektriskt ledande. Heeger, MacDiarmid och Shirakawa var pionj¤rer inom detta omr¥de p¥ slutet av
Alan G. MacDiarmid - Autobiography alan G. macdiarmid. I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealandon April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/macdiarmid-autobio.html
Extractions: HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealand on April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, although I became a naturalized United States citizen many years ago in order to have the right to vote in US elections and, hence, voice my political opinions in a meaningful way. My father, an engineer, was unemployed for four years during the Great Depression which hit New Zealand rather severely in the early 1930s. Since jobs were believed to be more plentiful in the vicinity of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, located at the bottom of the North Island, we moved to Lower Hutt a few miles from Wellington. There my two older brothers and my elder sister were able to find jobs while I and my younger sister were still at primary school. It is my home life while growing up through high school, which I consider to have been the single most important factor in any success which I may have had in life. As my parents always said, "...an 'A's grade in a class is not a sign of success." Success is knowing that you have done your best and have exploited your God-given or gene-given abilities to the next maximum extent. More than this, no one can do. Alan (age 10).
Synthetic Metals A Novel Role For Organic Polymers Scientific paper describing a simple and inexpensive method for producing conducting patterns of electronic polymers on plastics and paper from computerdesigned patters. Author alan G. macdiarmid. http://www.hohnholz.de/dh/dhpubl/mdsynthmet.pdf
Chemistry 2000 alan J. Heeger, alan G. macdiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa. alan J. Heeger, alan G.macdiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa. third 1/3 of the prize, third 1/3 of the prize http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/
Penn Department Of Chemistry - Faculty alan G. macdiarmid. Dr. alan G. macdiarmid Blanchard Professor of Chemistry.MATERIALS AND POLYMER CHEMISTRY. OFFICE 343 N LAB 337335333208 N http://www.sas.upenn.edu/chem/faculty/macdiarmid/macdiarmid.html
Extractions: EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC HISTORY: M.Sc., University of New Zealand (1950) Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (1953) Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1955) Ph.D. (hon.), Linkoping University (Sweden) (1990) Philadelphia Section Award, American Chemical Society (1967) Frederic Stanley Kipping Award, American Chemical Society (1970) Marshall Award, American Chemical Society (1982) Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society (1982) Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Medal and Lectureship (England) (1983) Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists (1984) "Top 100" Innovation Award, Science Digest (1985) Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (1988) John Scott Award, City of Philadelphia (1989) Francis J. Clamer Award, The Franklin Institute (1993) Chemistry of Materials Award, American Chemical Society (1999)
Extractions: Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors A high conductivity form of polyacetylene reported before Shirakawa et al (submitted by Peter H. Proctor, PhD, MD Alan G. MacDiarmid Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar Alan G. MacDiarmid Prize Award Photo (submitted by Thomas Chemistry awards in 2000 (submitted by john) Biography of Alan G. MacDiarmid
Extractions: For a hundred years young graduates have been told that “there's a great future in plastics.” That exhortation continues to have currency today, thanks to the work of New Zealand born and educated scientist Alan MacDiarmid who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 for his and his colleagues' "discovery and development of electronically conductive polymers." The Nobel Prize recognized advances that are seen to be the future of the technology that fuels the progress of the age of information. Alan, the model of a scientist, lives by the sign in his study: “I am a very lucky person and the harder I work the luckier I seem to be.” In January of 1892 young Archie MacDiarmid had a country holiday at the farm of friends, the Rutherfords at Pungarehu on the Taranaki coast near Cape Egmont. In a letter home Archie mentioned that one of the Rutherford boys, "Earnest" had made 28 gallons of wine. Ernest Rutherford's nomination for the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry failed. Instead it was awarded to Edward Buchner of the University of Berlin for his studies of the fermentation process. But Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his fundamental discovery that the natural transmutation of heavy atoms was the explanation of radioactivity.
Extractions: U.S. chemist. He earned Ph.D.'s in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1953) and the University of Cambridge (1955). He then began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming Blanchard Professor of Chemistry there in 1988. With Alan J. Heeger and Shirakawa Hideki , he demonstrated that certain plastics can be chemically altered to be almost as conductive as metals. The discovery led scientists to uncover other conductive polymers, which contributed to the growing field of molecular electronics. In 2000 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Heeger and Shirakawa.
Extractions: U.S. chemist. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. With Alan G. MacDiarmid and Shirakawa Hideki , Heeger determined that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals. The finding led to the discovery of other conductive polymers and contributed to the emerging field of molecular electronics. Heeger, who taught at several institutions, founded the UNIAX Corp. in 1990. In 2000 he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with MacDiarmid and Shirakawa. var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Heeger, Alan J.." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9384270
Shirakawa a Nobel Prize 2000 in Chemistry with alan J. Heeger and alan G. macdiarmid . alan macdiarmid (left), Hideki Shirakawa (center), alan Heeger (right) http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/shirakawa.htm
Extractions: Hideki Shirakawa, co-discoverer of the field of conducting polymers, more commonly known as "synthetic metals," was the chemist responsible in 1977 for the chemical and electrochemical doping of polyacetylene, (CH) x , the "prototype" conducting polymer. Hideki Shirakawa shared a Nobel Prize 2000 in Chemistry with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G. MacDiarmid. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize to the three for the discovery and development of conductive polymers. Hideki Shirakawa was born in Tokyo on August 20, 1936. After graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering in 1961, he enrolled in the graduate program there and received his doctorate in engineering in 1966. He subsequently worked as an assistant at the Chemical Resources Laboratory at his alma mater until 1976, when he went to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States as a researcher. Three years later he returned to Japan, joining the faculty of the University of Tsukuba as an associate professor. In 1982 he became a professor, and in April 2000 he was appointed professor emeritus. In 1983 he received the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, for his research into polyacetylene. Hideki Shirakawa, a 64-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, has been named the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000. The prize was presented jointly to Shirakawa and two U.S. scientists - Alan Heeger, 64, of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, of the University of Pennsylvania - for their discovery and development of conductive polymers, or plastics that can transmit electric current. Shirakawa is the ninth Japanese to become a Nobel laureate and the first since Kenzaburo Oe, who won the prize for literature in 1994. He is the second Japanese to receive the chemistry award. The first was the late Ken'ichi Fukui, who won it in 1981.
MSN Encarta - MacDiarmid, Alan G. macdiarmid, alan G., born in 1927, New Zealandborn American chemist and cowinnerof the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry. macdiarmid shared the prize http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701500007/MacDiarmid_Alan_G.html
Extractions: Subscription Article MSN Encarta Premium: Get this article, plus 60,000 other articles, an interactive atlas, dictionaries, thesaurus, articles from 100 leading magazines, homework tools, daily math help and more for $4.95/month or $29.95/year (plus applicable taxes.) Learn more. This article is exclusively available for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers. Already a subscriber? Sign in above. MacDiarmid, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan G. , born in 1927, New Zealand-born American chemist and cowinner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry. MacDiarmid shared the prize... Related Items polymer scientists sharing the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 3 items Want more Encarta? Become a subscriber today and gain access to: Find more about MacDiarmid, Alan G. from Related Items Other Features from Encarta Polymer Search Encarta for MacDiarmid, Alan G.
National Academy Of Sciences - Members macdiarmid, alan G. The University of Texas at Dallas. macdiarmid is a syntheticchemist who developed methods that allowed him to obtain polymers that http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-5B2P9S?opendocum
National Academy Of Sciences Elects 72 New Members macdiarmid, alan G.; Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of PennsylvaniaMarcy, Geoffrey W.; director, Center for Integrative Planetary Science, http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/04302002?OpenDocument
MacDiarmid, Alan G. macdiarmid, alan G. I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealandon April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/macDiarmid/mac
Extractions: I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealand on April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, although I became a naturalized United States citizen many years ago in order to have the right to vote in US elections and, hence, voice my political opinions in a meaningful way. My father, an engineer, was unemployed for four years during the Great Depression which hit New Zealand rather severely in the early 1930s. Since jobs were believed to be more plentiful in the vicinity of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, located at the bottom of the North Island, we moved to Lower Hutt a few miles from Wellington. There my two older brothers and my elder sister were able to find jobs while I and my younger sister were still at primary school. It is my home life while growing up through high school, which I consider to have been the single most important factor in any success which I may have had in life. As my parents always said, "...an 'A's grade in a class is not a sign of success." Success is knowing that you have done your best and have exploited your God-given or gene-given abilities to the next maximum extent. More than this, no one can do. For a period in grade school, I attended a two-room school in Keri Keri (town population, 600) where most of my school chums were Maori boys and girls from whom I learned so much. During much of my time at grade school I had an early morning, pre-school job delivering milk on my bicycle for Mr. Bradley, who had a few cows in a nearby paddock. My mother was superb - she would get up with me while it was still dark to make me hot tea to send me on my way. When I started high school it was necessary to give up my Milk route. Instead, I delivered the "Evening Post" newspaper on my bicycle after school.
Online NewsHour: Nobel Prize In Chemistry -- October 10, 2000 alan G. macdiarmid, New Zealandborn American, 73, University of Pennsylvania.Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese, 64, University of Tsukuba. alan macdiarmid and http://www.pbs.org/newshour/nobel2000/chemistry.html
Extractions: Alan J. Heeger , American, 64, University of California, Santa Barbara Alan G. MacDiarmid , New Zealand-born American, 73, University of Pennsylvania Hideki Shirakawa , Japanese, 64, University of Tsukuba Alan MacDiarmid and physics winner Herbert Kroemer discuss their research. Online Special: 2000 Nobel Prizes Oct. 13, 2000: A discussion with Nobel Prize winner Paul Greengard An Online Special on the 1999 Nobel Prizes Browse the NewsHour's coverage of Science and Health The Nobel Foundation University of California, Santa Barbara University of Pennsylvania ... University of Tsukuba Americans Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid and Japan's Hideki Shirakawa won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that plastic can be made to conduct electricity. Plastics, generally thought to be incapable of conducting electricity, are polymers, molecules whose structure is repeated in long chains. Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa showed that polymers can conduct electricity if they are "doped" by removing or introducing electrons and if they consist alternately of single and double bonds between carbon atoms.
Nobel Prize Winning Chemists alan G. macdiarmid. The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2000 The ensuing collaborationbetween macdiarmid, Shirakawa and alan Heeger led to the historic http://www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us/district/webpages2002/judymedrano/Nobel Winners/a
Extractions: Nobel Prize Winning Chemists Alan G. MacDiarmid The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2000 Alan McDiarmid, co-discoverer of the field of conducting polymers, more commonly known as "synthetic metals", was the chemist responsible in 1977 for the chemical and electrochemical doping of polyacetylene, the "prototype" conducing polymer, and the "rediscovery" of polyaniline, now the foremost industrial conducting polymer. In 1973, he began research on (SN) x , an unusual polymeric material with metallic conductivity. His interest in organic conducting polymers began in 195 when he was introduced to a new form of polyacetylene by Dr. Hidelki Shirakawa at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The ensuing collaboration between MacDiarmid, Shirakawa and Alan Heeger led to the historic discovery of metallic conductivity in an organic polymer. This initial discovery and ensuing studies, in collaboration with Shirakawa, resulted in the first chemical doping of (CH) x and detailed physics studies with Heeger. MacDiarmid was born in New Zealand 71 years ago and after obtaining his higher education at the University of New Zealand, University of Wisconsin and Cambridge University he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, where he is currently Blanchard Professor of Chemistry.
VCU School Of Engineering - Photo Gallery Dr. alan G. macdiarmid, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Speaks at the Dr.alan G. macdiarmid delivers a talk based on his 2000 Nobel Prize Address. http://www.egr.vcu.edu/photogallery/pg2001/pg02022001.html
Extractions: Photo Gallery Home Pictured from left to right are Dr. W. Baxter Perkinson (Vice Rector of the VCU Board of Visitors), Dr. Eugene P. Trani (President of VCU), and Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Dr. Perkinson is seen here presenting Dr. MacDiarmid with an honorary doctorate from VCU. Seen here are Dr. W. Baxter Perkinson, Dr. Eugene P. Trani, Dr. Robert J. Mattauch (Dean of the School of Engineering), Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid and Dr. Kenneth J. Wynne (Professor, Chemical Engineering). Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid delivers a talk based on his 2000 Nobel Prize Address. The title of his talk is "Synthetic Metals": a Novel Role for Organic Polymers. Members of the School of Engineering appreciating the gold Nobel Prize medallion. Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid and Dr. Kenneth J. Wynne (Professor, Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering) in the School of Engineering Computer Lab. Dr. Wynne is credited by Dr. MacDiarmid for his vision and commitment in funding this area of research as Program Manager, Office of Naval Research.
