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Alan MacDiarmid
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Person

Alan MacDiarmid

1927 – 2007 · aged 80

New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)

Born
14 Apr 1927 · Masterton
Died
7 Feb 2007 · Drexel Hill
Part ofNew Zealand1807 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 14 Apr 1927BornBorn in Masterton
  2. 1982AwardCentenary Prize
  3. 1984AwardChemical Pioneer Award
  4. 1989AwardJohn Scott Award
  5. 1993AwardFrancis J. Clamer Medal
  6. 1999AwardHonorary degree
  7. 1999AwardHonorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
  8. 2000AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  9. 2000AwardRutherford Medal
  10. 2001AwardOrder of New Zealand
  11. 2001AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  12. 2002AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  13. 2003AwardOesper Award
  14. 7 Feb 2007DiedDied in Drexel Hill

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2007).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

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