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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000

"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
Alan J. Heeger Alan G. MacDiarmid Hideki Shirakawa
Alan J. Heeger Alan G. MacDiarmid Hideki Shirakawa
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA and New Zealand Japan
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA		 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA		 University of Tsukuba
Tokyo, Japan
b. 1936 b. 1927
(in Masterton, New Zealand)
d. 2007		 b. 1936
 

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