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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-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan MacDiarmid has received more than 167,663 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Alan MacDiarmid is the 193rd most popular chemist (up from 269th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 193 out of 602. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc, Robert S. Mulliken, Emil Erlenmeyer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Hennig Brand, and Roald Hoffmann. After him are Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, and John Vane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 55. Before him are Sydney Brenner, Stan Getz, F. Sherwood Rowland, Leszek Kołakowski, Mary Higgins Clark, and Juan Almeida Bosque. After him are Robert Noyce, Enzo Bearzot, John Vane, Marvin Minsky, Phil Hill, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Among people deceased in 2007, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 36. Before him are Ashraf Marwan, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, and Momofuku Ando. After him are Henri Troyat, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Lois Maxwell, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Jean-Claude Brialy.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Alan MacDiarmid ranks 9 out of 303. Before him are Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), Katherine Mansfield (1888), and Denny Hulme (1936). After him are Thomas Williams (1930), Helen Clark (1950), Chris Amon (1943), Burt Munro (1899), Martin Campbell (1943), and Kiri Te Kanawa (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In New Zealand

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

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