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Haurongo: MacDiarmid, Alan Graham

Talking to school pupils

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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

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Callaghan. 'MacDiarmid, Alan Graham', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/32038/talking-to-school-pupils (accessed 4 June 2026).