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						 Aylsworth, Jonas 
 
						 Bachner, Edward F. 
 
						 Bacon, Clare E. 
 
						 Baekeland, Leo 
 
						 Baer, Eric 
 
						 Bailey, James 
 
						 Beall, Glenn 
 
						 Beetle, Carl 
 
						 Belcher, Sameul L. 
 
						 Bemis, Peter F. 
 
						 Bishop, Richard 
 
						 Black, Otis 
 
						 Blount, Clint 
 
						 Boeschenstein, H 
 
						 Borro, Edward 
 
						 Boyer, Raymond 
 
						 Bradbury, Williamry 
 
						 Bradt, Rexford H. 
 
						 Breskin, Charles 
 
						 Brown, Gordon 
 
						 Burroughs, Charles 
 
						 Bushman, Edwin F. 
 
						 Carothers, Wallace 
 
						 Chapman, Frank 
 
						 Chum, Pak-Wing S. 
 
						 Cleworth, C. W. 
 
						 Condit, Charles 
 
						 Conley, Fred 
 
						 Cruse, William 
 
						 Deanin, Rudolph 
 
						 DeBell, John 
 
						 Delmonte, John 
 
						 Doak, Kenneth 
 
						 Dow, Willard 
 
						 Doyle, Bernard 
 
						 Dreyfus, Camille 
 
						 Dubois, J. Harry 
 
						 Eastman, George 
 
						 Ehlers, Russell 
 
						 Ellis, Carleton 
 
						 Erikson, Erik 
 
						 Estabrook, Jr., F. R. 
 
						 Flory, Paul 
 
						 Forger, Robert 
 
						 Foster, Joseph 
 
						 Fox, Daniel W. 
 
						 Freitag, Dieter 
 
						 Gatto, Charles 
 
						 Gigliotti, M. F. X. 
 
						 Goggin, William 
 
						 Goldsworthy, W.B. 
 
						 Gore, Wilbert 
 
						 Grebe, John 
 
						 Griffith, Henry E. 
 
						 Griffith, Palmer 
 
						 Gross, Sid 
 
						 Grote, Sr., Walter 
 
						 Haine, Walter 
 
						 Hanford, William 
 
						 Harding, Ralph 
 
						 Heckman, Jerome 
 
						 Hemming, Emile 
 
						 Hendrie, George 
 
						 Hobson, Edwin L. 
 
						 Hoffer, Robert 
 
						 Hohl, John 
 
						 Holz, Harold A. 
 
						 Huidekoper, P. 
 
						 Humphrey, G. P. 
 
						 Hunkar, Denes B. 
 
						 Huntsman, Jon 
 
						 Hyatt, John Wesley 
 
						 Hyde, J.F. 
 
						 Jennings, Garland 
 
						 Karol, Frederick J. 
 
						 Kavanaugh, Lionel 
 
						 Keville, John 
 
						 Kleiderer, C. W. 
 
						 Kline, Gordon M. 
 
						 Koenig, Jack 
 
						 Kretzschmar, J. R. 
 
						 Kruder, George A. 
 
						 Kwolek, S. L. 
 
						 Land, Edwin H. 
 
						 Lankton, Gordon 
 
						 Lester, William M. 
 
						 Lubin, George 
 
						 Maccaferri, Mario 
 
						 MacDiarmid, Alan G. 
 
						 Maddock, Bruce H. 
 
						 Mark, Herman F. 
 
						 Marra, Frank S. 
 
						 Marshall, Abraham 
 
						 Martinelli, Guy A. 
 
						 Marvel, Carl Shipp 
 
						 McGrath, James E. 
 
						 Mehnert, Gottfried 
 
						 Menges, Georg 
 
						 Morrison, Robert S. 
 
						 Morton, Jr., Thomas 
 
						 Muehlstein, Herman 
 
						 Nalle, Jr., George S. 
 
						 Natta, Giulio 
 
						 Nissel, Frank R. 
 
						 Ott, Emile 
 
						 Palmer, Spencer E. 
 
						 Parkes, Alexander 
 
						 Peters, Don. L. 
 
						 Pitcher, Arnold E. 
 
						 Plueddemann, E. 
 
						 Plunkett, Roy J. 
 
						 Porter, Roger S. 
 
						 Quarnstrom, Ivar 
 
						 Rahm, Louis Frank 
 
						 Reib, John C. 
 
						 Reinhart, Frank W. 
 
						 Richardson, Henry 
 
						 Robertson, Harold 
 
						 Rosato, Dominick V. 
 
						 Rowan, Sr., Edward 
 
						 Rubens, L.C. "Bud" 
 
						 Rubin, Irvin I. 
 
						 Schad, Robert 
 
						 Schnell, Hermann 
 
						 Schwab, Fred E. 
 
						 Scribner, George K. 
 
						 Seabury, R. W. 
 
						 Semon, Waldo L. 
 
						 Seymour, R. B. 
 
						 Shaw, Frank H. 
 
						 Shaw, Louis E. 
 
						 Sherwood, Miller G. 
 
						 Slater, John G. 
 
						 Spaak, Albert 
 
						 Staudinger, H 
 
						 Stein, Richard S. 
 
						 Stott, Lewis L. 
 
						 Stoughton, T. S. 
 
						 Swallow, John 
 
						 Swedlow, David A. 
 
						 Thomas, Islyn 
 
						 Tupper, Earl S. 
 
						 Von Holdt, John 
 
						 Welch, John F. 
 
						 Whitlock, Carl 
 
						 Willert, William H. 
 
						 Wyeth, N. C. 
 
						 Zimmerman, A. S. 
 
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|  |  | Alan G. MacDiarmid   Birthdate:April 14, 1927
 Deceased:February 7, 2007
 Induction: May, 2008  Industry Areas: N/A
 |  Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927-2007) was born in New Zealand and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Victoria University College in New Zealand and he received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and a second PhD from Cambridge University, England. Dr. MacDiarmid came to be known as the "Father of Conductive Polymers."
 He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers or plastics that conduct electricity like metals, more commonly known as "synthetic" metals. Dr. MacDiarmid was the chemist responsible in 1977 for the chemical and electrochemical doping of polyacetylene (CH)x, the "prototype" conducting polymer and the "rediscovery" of polyaniline, now the foremost conducting polymer. This work led to technological opportunities for the applications of these materials in such diverse areas as rechargeable batteries, electromagnetic interference shielding, antistatic dissipation, stealth applications, corrosion inhibition, flexible "plastic" transistors and electrodes and electroluminescent polymer displays, to name but a few applications that continue to be pursued.  Honors ⢠1971 Frederich Stanley Kipping Award from the American Chemical Society
 ⢠1988 Named Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
 ⢠1999 American Chemical Society Award in Materials Chemistry
 ⢠2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Discovery of Conductive Polymers
 ⢠2001 Society of Plastics Engineers' International Award
 ⢠2002 Professor of Chemistry and James Von Her Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology, University of Texas, Dallas
 
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