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The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from New Zealand

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This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 38th most number of Chemists behind South Korea and Moldova.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Chemists of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Alan MacDiarmid (1927 - 2007)

With an HPI of 57.92, Alan MacDiarmid is the most famous New Zealander Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.

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

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1927 and 1927. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chemists include Alan MacDiarmid.

Deceased Chemists

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