Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000

Alan J. Heeger

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Prize share: 1/3

Alan G. MacDiarmid

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Prize share: 1/3

Hideki Shirakawa

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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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