Alan G. MacDiarmid

Dr. MacDiarmid, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, is the Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania since 1955, and the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
After completed a MSc in Chemistry he was awarded a Fullbright Fellowship to study for a PhD at the University of Wisconsin.
He then won a Shell Scholarship, which enabled him to go to Cambridge University where he completed a second PhD.
In 1955 after a year at St Andrews University in Scotland, Alan took a position at the University of Pennsylvania.
He became a full Professor in 1964 and the distinguished Blanchard Professor in Chemistry from 1988.
He was awarded the 1999 American Chemical Society Award in Materials Chemistry.