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{{Short description|American-New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)}}
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| birth_name = Alan Graham MacDiarmid
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|caption           = Alan MacDiarmid in Beijing, China, 2005
|birth_date        = 14 April 1927
|birth_place       = [[Masterton]], New Zealand
|death_date        = 7 February 2007 (aged 79)
|death_place       = [[Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
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* [[University of Pennsylvania]]
*  [[University of St Andrews]]
*  [[University of Texas at Dallas]]}}
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* [[Victoria University of Wellington]] (BSc)
* [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] (MS, PhD)
* [[University of Cambridge]] (PhD)}}
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| thesis_title = The chemistry of some new derivatives of the silyl radical
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| thesis_year = 1955
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* [[The Franklin Institute Awards|The Francis J. Clamer Medal]] (1993)
* [[Nobel Prize]] in Chemistry (2000)
* [[William H. Nichols Medal]] (2002)
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (2003)<ref name=frs/>
* NAS Member (2002)
* [[Friendship Award]] (2004)}}
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'''Alan Graham MacDiarmid''', [[Order of New Zealand|ONZ]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Holmes |first1=Andrew B. |last2=Klein |first2=Michael L. |last3=Baughman |first3=Ray H. |date=2023 |title=Alan Graham MacDiarmid. 14 April 1927—7 February 2007 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=74|pages=259–282 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2022.0045 |s2cid=256630316 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=frs/> (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for [[Chemistry]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1038/446390a | title = Obituary: Alan Graham MacDiarmid (1927–2007) Pioneer of conducting polymers, and proud Antipodean | year = 2007 | last1 = Holmes | first1 = Andrew |author-link1 = Andrew Bruce Holmes | journal = Nature | volume = 446 | issue = 7134 | pages = 390 | pmid = 17377574| s2cid = 4400048 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | journal = Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering | volume = 15  | year = 2011| pages =296 | title = Alan G. MacDiarmid | url = http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13160&page=296}}</ref><ref name="OH">{{cite web|author=Center for Oral History| title= Alan G. MacDiarmid |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/macdiarmid-alan-g|website= [[Science History Institute]] }}</ref><ref name="transcript">{{cite book|first1= Cyrus |last1=Mody |title=Alan G. MacDiarmid, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by Cyrus Mody at University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 19 December 2005 |date=19 December 2005 |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/macdiarmid_ag_0325_suppl.pdf|place=Philadelphia, PA|publisher=[[Science History Institute|Chemical Heritage Foundation]] }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
MacDiarmid was born in [[Masterton]], New Zealand, as one of five children – three brothers and two sisters. His family was relatively poor, and the [[Great Depression]] made life difficult in Masterton, due to which his family shifted to [[Lower Hutt]], a few miles from [[Wellington]], New Zealand. At around age ten, he developed an interest in [[chemistry]] from one of his father's old textbooks, and he taught himself from this book and from library books.

MacDiarmid was educated at [[Hutt Valley High School]] and [[Victoria University of Wellington]].<ref name="ab">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/macdiarmid-autobio.html|title=Alan G. MacDiarmid – Autobiography|work=Nobelprize.org|access-date=3 July 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070710101243/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/macdiarmid-autobio.html| archive-date= 10 July 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref>

In 1943, MacDiarmid passed the University of New Zealand's University Entrance Exam and its Medical Preliminary Exam.<ref name="nz">
{{cite web| url= http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/macdiarmid.html| title= Alan MacDiarmid – PLASTIC FANTASTIC| work= NZEdge.com| access-date= 3 July 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070701023813/http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/macdiarmid.html| archive-date= 1 July 2007| url-status= dead}}
</ref> He then took up a part-time job as a "lab boy" or janitor at Victoria University of Wellington during his studies for a BSc degree, which he completed in 1947.<ref name=nz/> He was then appointed demonstrator in the undergraduate laboratories.<ref name=nz/> After completing an MSc in chemistry from the same university, he worked as an assistant in its chemistry department.<ref name=ab/> It was here that he had his first publication in 1949, in the scientific journal ''Nature''.<ref name=nz/> He graduated in 1951 with first class honours, and won a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Fellowship]] to the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]. He majored in inorganic chemistry, receiving his M.S. degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1953. He then won a Shell Graduate Scholarship, which enabled him to go to [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], where he completed a second PhD in 1955.<ref name=ab/><ref>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=The chemistry of some new derivatives of the silyl radical|first= Alan Graham|last=MacDiarmid|date=1955|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648061}}</ref>

==Career and research==
MacDiarmid worked in the School of Chemistry at the [[University of St Andrews]] in Scotland for a year as a member of the junior faculty. He then took a faculty position in chemistry at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], United States, where he became a full professor in 1964. MacDiarmid spent the greater part of his career on the chemistry faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked for 45 years.<ref name=ab/> The first twenty years of his research there focused on [[silicon]] chemistry.<ref>{{cite journal | s2cid=95219241 | doi=10.1016/S0022-328X(00)85395-4 | title=Synthesis and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of silylmethyl halides | year=1969 | last1=Bellama | first1=J.M. | last2=MacDiarmid | first2=A.G. | journal=Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=275–284 }}</ref> He was appointed Blanchard Professor of Chemistry in 1988.<ref>"Chairs for Five SAS Faculty".  ''Almanac'' (University of Pennsylvania newsletter), '''35(1)''', 12 July 1988.</ref>

In 2002 MacDiarmid also joined the faculty of the [[University of Texas at Dallas]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/obituaries/08macdiarmid.html|title=Alan MacDiarmid, 79, Who Won Nobel for Work With Plastic, Dies|work=The New York Times|access-date=1 March 2018 | first=Kenneth | last=Chang | date=8 February 2007}}</ref>

=== Conductive polymers===
His best-known research was the discovery and development of [[conductive polymers]]—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist [[Hideki Shirakawa]] and the American physicist [[Alan Heeger]] in this research and published the first results in 1977.<ref name="HMacSh">{{Cite journal|doi=10.1039/C39770000578|title=Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: Halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH) x|year=1977|last1=Shirakawa|first1=Hideki|last2=Louis|first2=Edwin J.|last3=MacDiarmid|first3=Alan G.|last4=Chiang|first4=Chwan K.|last5=Heeger|first5=Alan J.|journal=Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications|issue=16|pages=578|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA041866.pdf|access-date=29 April 2018|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925014126/http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA041866|url-status=live}}</ref> The three of them shared the 2000 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for this work.<ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v47/n08/nobel2000.html "The Long and Winding Road to the Nobel Prize for Alan MacDiarmid".  ''Almanac'' (University of Pennsylvania newsletter), '''47(8)''', 17 October 2000.]</ref><ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2000/102600/cover.html Sandy Smith, "Alan MacDiarmid".  ''The Penn Current'', 26 October 2000.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231002551/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2000/102600/cover.html |date=31 December 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0302/giresi.html Joan P. Capuzzi Giresi, "The Boy Chemist at 75."  ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', March 2002.]</ref><ref name="nob">{{cite web | url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/ | title = The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000: Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa}}</ref>

The Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery that plastics can, after certain modifications, be made electrically conductive.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10423031"/> The work progressed to yield important practical applications. Conductive plastics can be used for anti-static substances for photographic film and 'smart' windows that can exclude sunlight. Semi-conductive polymers have been applied in light-emitting diodes, solar cells and displays in mobile telephones. Future developments in molecular electronics are predicted to dramatically increase the speed while reducing the size of computers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2015}}

MacDiarmid also travelled around the world for speaking engagements that impressed upon listeners the value of globalising the effort of innovation in the 21st century. In one of his last courses, in 2001, MacDiarmid elected to lead a small seminar of incoming freshmen about his research activities. Overall, his name is on over 600 published papers and 20 patents.<ref name=nyt/>

===Selected publications===
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* Chiang, C.K.; Druy, M.A.; Gau, S.C.; Heeger, A.J.; Louis, E.J.; MacDiarmid, A.G.; Park, Y.W.; Shirakawa, H., "Synthesis of Highly Conducting Films of Derivatives of Polyacetylene, (CH)x," ''J. Am. Chem. Soc.'', '''100''', 1013 (1978).
* Heeger, A. J.; MacDiarmid, A. G., ''[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5430541-polyacetylene-ch-sub-emerging-material-solar-cell-applications-technical-progress-report-october-november-december Polyacetylene, (CH){sub x}, as an Emerging Material for Solar Cell Applications. Final Technical Report, March 19, 1979 – March 18, 1980]'', [[University of Pennsylvania]] (June 1980).
* MacDiarmid, A. G., ''[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5828801-energy-systems-based-polyacetylene-rechargeable-batteries-schottky-barrier-solar-cells-final-report-march-february Energy Systems Based on Polyacetylene: Rechargeable Batteries and Schottky Barrier Solar Cells. Final Report, March 1, 1981 – February 29, 1984]'', [[University of Pennsylvania]] (February 1984).
* ''[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7077398-workshop-conductive-polymers-final-report The Workshop on Conductive Polymers: Final Report]'', [[U.S. Department of Energy]] Division of Materials Sciences, [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]] (October 1985).
* Chiang, J.-C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Polyaniline': Protonic Acid Doping of the Emeraldine Form to the Metallic Regime,"  ''Synth. Met.'', '''13''', 193 (1986).
* MacDiarmid, A.G.; Chiang, J.-C.; Richter, A.F.; Epstein, A.J., "Polyaniline: A New Concept in Conducting Polymers," ''Synth. Met.'', '''18''', 285 (1987).
* MacDiarmid, A.G., Yang, L.S., Huang, W.-S., and Humphrey, B.D., "Polyaniline: Electrochemistry and Application to Rechargeable Batteries".  ''Synth. Met.'', '''18''', 393 (1987).
* Kaner, R.B.; MacDiarmid, A.G., "Plastics That Conduct Electricity," ''Scientific American'', 106 (February 1988).
* MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., " 'Synthetic Metals': A Novel Role for Organic Polymers," ''Macromol. Chem.'', '''51''', 11 (1991).
* MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., "Science and Technology of Conducting Polymers," in ''Frontiers of Polymer Research'', P.N. Prasad and J.K. Nigam, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1991, p.&nbsp;259.
* Wang, Z.H.; Li, C.; Scherr, E.M.; MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., "Three Dimensionality of 'Metallic' States in Conducting Polymers: Polyaniline," ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'', '''66''', 1745 (1991).
* MacDiarmid, A.J.; Epstein, A.J., "The Concept of Secondary Doping as Applied to Polyaniline," ''Synth. Met.'', '''65''', 103 (1994).
* MacDiarmid, A.G., Zhou, Y., Feng, J., Furst, G.T., and Shedlow, A.M., "Isomers and Isomerization Processes in Poly-Anilines," ''Proc. ANTEC '99, Soc. Plastics Engr.'', '''2''', 1563 (1999).
* MacDiarmid, A.G., Norris, I.D., Jones, J.W.E., El-Sherif, M.A., Yuan, J., Han, B. and Ko, F.K., "Polyaniline Based Chemical Transducers with Sub-micron Dimensions," ''Polymeric Mat. Sci. & Eng.'', '''83''', 544 (2000).
* Norris, I.D., Shaker, M.M., Ko, F.K., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Electrostatic Fabrication of Ultrafine Conducting Fibers: Polyaniline/Polyethylene Oxide Blends," ''Synth. Met.'', '''114''', 2 (2000).
* MacDiarmid, A.G., Jones, J.W.E., Norris, I.D., Gao, J., Johnson, J.A.T., Pinto, N.J., Hone, J., Han, B., Ko, F.K., Okuzaki, H., and Llaguno, M., "Electrostatically-Generated Nanofibers of Electronic Polymers," ''Synth. Met.'', '''119''', 27–30 (2001).
* Shimano, J.Y., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Phase Segregation in Polyaniline: A Dynamic Block Copolymer," ''Synth. Met.'', '''119''', 365–366 (2001).
* Wang, P.C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Dependency of Properties of In Situ Deposited Polypyrrole Films on Dopant Anion and Substrate Surface," ''Synth. Met.'', '''119''', 267–268 (2001).
* Hohnholz, D., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Line Patterning of Conducting Polymers: New Horizons for Inexpensive, Disposable Electronic Devices," ''Synth. Met.'', '''121''', 1327–1328 (2001).
* Premvardhan, L., Peteanu, L.A., Wang, P.-C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., "Electronic Properties of the Conducting Form of Polyaniline from Electroabsorption Measurements," ''Synth. Met.'', '''116''', 157–161 (2001).
* MacDiarmid, A.G. "Twenty-five Years of Conducting Polymers".  ''Chem. Comm.'', 1–4 (2003).
* Tanner, D.B.; Doll, G.L.; Rao, A.M.; Eklund, P.C.; Arbuckle, G.A.; MacDiarmid, A.G. "Optical properties of potassium-doped polyacetylene".  ''Synth. Met.'', '''141''', 75–79 (2004).
* Hohnholz, D.; Okuzaki, H.; MacDiarmid, A.G. "Plastic electronic devices through line patterning of conducting polymers".  ''Adv. Funct. Mater.'', '''15''', 51–56 (2005).
* Venancio, E.C; Wang, P-C.; MacDiarmid, A.G. "The Azanes: A Class of Material Incorporating Nano/Micro Self-Assembled Hollow Spheres Obtained By Aqueous Oxidative Polymerization of Aniline". ''Synth. Met.'', '''156''', 357 (2006).
* MacDiarmid, A.G.; Venancio, E.C. "Agrienergy (Agriculture/Energy): What Does the Future Hold?”. ''Experimental Biology and Medicine.'', '''231''', 1212 (2006).
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==Awards and honours==
MacDiarmid won numerous awards and honours including:
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*[[Victoria University of Wellington]] gave MacDiarmid an honorary doctorate in 1999 and in 2001 created the Alan MacDiarmid Chair in Physical Chemistry.<ref name=nz/> The [[MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology]] and the Alan MacDiarmid building, opened in May 2010, at the university are named after him.
*Awarded the 1999 [[American Chemical Society]] Award in ''Materials Chemistry''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=awards%5Cmaterials.html |title=Chemistry.org |access-date=14 July 2007 |archive-date=4 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704024525/http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=awards%5Cmaterials.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*In 2000 the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]] awarded him its top honour, the [[Rutherford Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand)|Rutherford Medal]].<ref name=nz/>
*In 2002, he was elected a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]].
*In the [[2002 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|2002 New Year Honours]], MacDiarmid was appointed to the [[Order of New Zealand]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2002 | title=New Year honours list 2002 |date=31 December 2001 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref> which is the highest honour the country awards.
* MacDiarmid was elected a [[List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2003|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003]]<ref name=frs>{{cite web |title=Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015 |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml |publisher=Royal Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml |archive-date=15 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*In 2004, he received the [[Friendship Award (China)|Friendship Award]], the highest honour of the People's Republic of China for foreign experts.<ref name=pdaily2004a>[http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200409/30/eng20040930_158811.html Friendship Award awards friends, People's Daily Online, 30 September 2004]</ref>
*The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the [[University of Texas at Dallas]] was named after him posthumously in 2007.
*The Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute at [[Jilin University]] in China was named after him since 2001.
*MacDiarmid Place in Lower Hutt, built in 2013 on the grounds of the closed Waiwhetu School of which he was a pupil, is named after Alan MacDiarmid.
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==Personal life==
Towards the end of his life, MacDiarmid was ill with [[myelodysplastic syndrome]]. In early February 2007 he was planning to travel back to New Zealand, when he fell down the stairs in his home in [[Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania]], a suburb of [[Philadelphia]],<ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0307/gaz02.html "Nobel-Winner MacDiarmid Dies".  ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', March 2007.]</ref> and died on 7 February 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/3955234a11.html|title=NZ Nobel Prize winner dies|publisher=[[NZPA]]|date=8 February 2007|access-date=8 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922214848/http://www.stuff.co.nz/3955234a11.html|archive-date=22 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is buried at [[Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania)|Arlington Cemetery]] in Drexel Hill.

MacDiarmid's first wife, Marian Mathieu, who he had married in 1954,<ref name=nz/> died in 1990. He is survived by four children: Heather McConnell, Dawn Hazelett, Duncan MacDiarmid and Gail Williams, from their marriage and nine grandchildren: Dr. Sean McConnell, Dr. Ryan McConnell, Rebecca McConnell, Dr. Clayton Hazelett, Wesley Hazelett, Langston MacDiarmid, Aubree Williams, Austin Williams and George Williams. MacDiarmid was also survived by his second wife, Gayl Gentile, whom he married in 2005; she died in 2014.<ref name=nyt/>

MacDiarmid was a first cousin of New Zealand expatriate painter [[Douglas MacDiarmid]]. The year after Alan received the [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]], Douglas [http://www.douglasmacdiarmid.com/portrait-alan-macdiarmid/ painted a portrait] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111074351/http://www.douglasmacdiarmid.com/portrait-alan-macdiarmid/ |date=11 November 2021 }} of his cousin for the [[New Zealand Portrait Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzportraitgallery.org.nz/portraits-online/portraits/alan-macdiarmid|title=Alan MacDiarmid|website=The New Zealand Portrait Gallery|language=en|access-date=2017-02-22|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204001430/https://nzportraitgallery.org.nz/portraits-online/portraits/alan-macdiarmid|url-status=dead}}</ref>

MacDiarmid was also active as a naturist and [[nudist]], and considered himself a sun-worshipper and keen waterskier.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-02-16|title=Kiwi Naturist Nobel Winner Remembered|url=https://naturistmusings.blogspot.com/2007/02/kiwi-naturist-nobel-winner-remembered.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111074352/https://naturistmusings.blogspot.com/2007/02/kiwi-naturist-nobel-winner-remembered.html|archive-date=2021-11-11|access-date=2022-01-09|website=NaturistMusings|language=en}}</ref><ref name="NZ_Herald_10423031">{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10423031 |title=The Nobel-prize winning naturist – Alan MacDiarmid remembered |author=Kent Atkinson of NZPA |date=9 February 2007 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=16 September 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://mynudelife.com/home/modules/news/article.php?storyid=96 My Nude Life]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930090902/http://mynudelife.com/home/modules/news/article.php?storyid=96 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{Nobelprize}} including the Nobel Lecture ''Synthetic Metals": A Novel Role for Organic Polymers''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181223233445/https://macdiarmid.ac.nz/ McDiarmid Institute Web Site]
*{{DNZB|title=Alan Graham MacDiarmid biography|id=6M2|plainlink=y}} from the ''[[Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]]''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200026/http://www.utdallas.edu/nsm/chemistry/faculty/macdiarmid.html MacDiarmid's Page at The University of Texas at Dallas]
*[http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~macdiarm/ MacDiarmid's page at the University of Pennsylvania]
*[http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/macdiarmid.html New Zealand Edge biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701023813/http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/macdiarmid.html |date=1 July 2007 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070523213730/http://www.frontiermaterials.net/macdiarmid_pub.htm List of MacDiarmid's publications]
*[http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/124 Interview with Alan MacDiarmid] Freeview video provided by the Vega Science Trust.
*{{cite book|title=Alan MacDiarmid Image Collection Finding Aid|url=http://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1069236~S5|via=Science History Institute|access-date=1 March 2018}}
* {{cite web|author=Center for Oral History| title= Alan G. MacDiarmid |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/macdiarmid-alan-g|website= [[Science History Institute]] }}
* {{cite book|first1= Cyrus |last1=Mody |title=Alan G. MacDiarmid, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by Cyrus Mody at University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 19 December 2005 |date=19 December 2005 |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/macdiarmid_ag_0325_suppl.pdf|place=Philadelphia, PA|publisher=[[Science History Institute|Chemical Heritage Foundation]] }}

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