Alan MacDiarmid received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden in 2000. His certificate is pictured here. MacDiarmid won the prize with Pennsylvania University physicist Professor Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. They had shown that some plastics could be made to conduct electricity by incorporating impurities.
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