MacDiarmid, Alan G. New Zealand-born American chemist who, with Alan J. Heeger and Shirakawa Hideki, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified ...
Heeger, Alan J. American chemist who, with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Shirakawa Hideki, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct ...
Shirakawa Hideki Japanese chemist who, with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Alan J. Heeger, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically altered to conduct electricity ...
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2001 from the Nobel Prizes article It was once common knowledge that plastics—polymeric materials that can be molded or shaped—are fundamentally different from metals in their properties. Plastics, for example, are used around the ...
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2001 from the Calendar of 2000 article Pope John Paul II canonizes Mother Katharine Drexel, Josephine Bakhita, and Maria Josefa as well as 120 Roman Catholics who were killed in China; China says the new martyr saints were guilty of ...
