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SuperPlasticsMan: The Alan MacDiarmid Story
The MacDiarmid institute is pleased to make available this documentary celebrating the life and work of Professor Alan MacDiarmid, the international man of science who, together with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.
Hosted by Professor Paul Callaghan, and produced and directed by Gresham Bradley and Mark Everton, the documentary traces Alan's life from his boyhood in New Zealand in the 1920s to his pioneering work on conducting polymers in the 1970s through to the last part of his extraordinary and active life.
It includes interviews with Alan, his family, friends and colleagues and footage of Alan, the remarkable science communicator, at public lectures, seminars and ceremonies during his victorious tour in 2001 when the public of New Zealand turned out in great numbers to see and hear their fellow New Zealander who had reached the pinnacle of world science.
We are grateful to the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, for making available the film footage from Alan's 2001 tour of New Zealand.
Playing time 42'30" created by e-cast.
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For more information on Alan, please visit the Alan MacDiarmid memorial page.
