The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
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Alan J. Heeger
Prize share: 1/3
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Alan G. MacDiarmid
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
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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