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Biography: MacDiarmid, Alan Graham

Talking to school pupils

Talking to school pupils

Alan MacDiarmid was educated in New Zealand and has praised his early schooling and family life as being partly responsible for his later success as a scientist. Here, he talks with Naenae College pupils in 2004 about his life as a scientist, being awarded the Nobel Prize and why they should stay at school as long as they can.

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The Dominion Post

Reference: 17 March 2004

Photograph by Rob Kitchin

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Paul Callaghan. 'MacDiarmid, Alan Graham', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32038/talking-to-school-pupils (accessed 4 June 2026).