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Alan MacDiarmid

1927 - 2007

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Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan MacDiarmid is the 208th most popular chemist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Chemist. Learn more about Alan MacDiarmid's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 208 out of 602. Before him are Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Karl Barry Sharpless. After him are James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Nikolay Semyonov, Paul Lauterbur, and Kenichi Fukui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 52. Before him are Robert Ludlum, Sydney Brenner, William Perry, Hugo Pratt, Geneviève Page, and George O. Abell. After him are Romano Mussolini, Stan Getz, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, John Vane, Daniel Keyes, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Among people deceased in 2007, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 37. Before him are Arthur Kornberg, Paul Tibbets, Nils Liedholm, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, and Abdul Rahman Arif. After him are Paul Lauterbur, Richard Rorty, Stanley Miller, Jane Wyman, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and Henri Troyat.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 7 out of 303. Before him are Ernest Rutherford (1871), Edmund Hillary (1919), Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), and Peter Jackson (1961). After him are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Denny Hulme (1936), Rosé (1997), Anthony Wilding (1883), William Phillips (1914), and Jane Campion (1954).

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Among CHEMISTS In New Zealand

Among chemists born in New Zealand, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 1. 

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