The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000

Alan J. Heeger

Prize share: 1/3

Alan G. MacDiarmid

Prize share: 1/3

Hideki Shirakawa

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."

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