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Alan MacDiarmid, chemist

Profile pic of chemist Alan Graham MacDiarmid (1927–2007).

Alan Graham MacDiarmid (1927–2007) was a chemist who, along with two others, discovered and developed a technique to turn certain plastics into conducting materials.

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