Oral history interview with Alan G. MacDiarmid 2005 December 19

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Oral history interview with Alan G. MacDiarmid 2005 December 19

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Alan G. MacDiarmid begins his interview by discussing his childhood and the two books that sparked his interest in chemistry. MacDiarmid, with degrees from University of New Zealand, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of Cambridge, focused his work on inorganic chemistry and accepted a faculty position at University of Pennsylvania. MacDiarmid discusses his lengthy career at Penn, his Nobel Prize-winning work with Hideki Shirakawa and Alan Heeger, and the benefits of interdisciplinary research.

Sound recordings ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (47 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Born in Masterton, New Zealand, on 14 April 1927. Education: B.Sc. Chemistry, University of New Zealand (1948), M.Sc. Chemistry, University of New Zealand (1950), M.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin (1952), Ph.D. inorganic chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1953), Ph.D., inorganic chemsitry, University of Cambridge (1955) Employment: 1955-1956 University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1955-2007 University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Oral history interview with Al...

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