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Alan MacDiarmid Nobel Lecture at Ewha University, South Korea

  • Synthetic Metals: A Novel Role for Organic Polymers

  • 2001-May-11
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Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa, and Alan Heeger won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for their work on plastic polymers that can conduct electricity. This lecture, given by MacDiarmid at Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo (Ewha Womans University) is the same lecture he gave upon winning the Nobel Prize, although leaving out some of the more technical details. MacDiarmid speaks in English and real-time translation into Korean is provided.

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Donated to Science History Institute by Alan MacDiarmid in 2005.
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  • 1H 58M 23S
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  • (VHS case spine) "To: Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid; From: Professor So-Yeop Han; "Nobel Lecture at Ewha""
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  • Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 4

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Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo. “Alan MacDiarmid Nobel Lecture at Ewha University, South Korea.” Vhs, May 11, 2001. Science History Institute VHS Collection, Box 4. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/hp2vaei.

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