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Alan G. Macdiarmid 1927-2007
Alan G. Macdiarmid 1927-2007
Pages 296-301
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While suffering from frequent skin cancer, a broken hip, and a blood disease that was expected to soon end his life, he nonetheless struggled ahead on the day of his death to begin a 10-day trip to New Zealand for keynote lectures, governmental meetings, a television interview, and a likely last farewell to family. alan never forgot his origins; he went barefoot to primary school in a two-room schoolhouse, where he reported, "Most of my school chums were Maori boys and girls from whom i 297
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He earned doctorates from the University of Wisconsin and cambridge University and subsequently became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His initial pioneering breakthroughs in cambridge and Philadelphia were in silicon chemistry, which earned him the 1971 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award of the american chemical society.
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Alan MacDiarmid has remarked, "Vision without funding is hallucination." Fortunately, program manager Ken Wynne from the Office of Naval Research happened to have $21,650 left in his program account, which he gave to support Hideki shirakawa's visit. once together, Heeger's deep insights into the physics of molecular charge-transfer complexes could be combined with Macdiarmid's and shirakawa's seminal chemical insights to make, characterize, understand, and exploit the first highly conducting organic polymer.
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The fire department cleared the building, and alan volunteered to go into harm's way to eliminate the risk. With others safely distant, alan donned bomb disposal clothing and used a fishing rod to open a valve to avert a potential catastrophe.
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