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Acetylene and Its Polymers

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Abstract

The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger in 2000 elevated the awareness of polyacetylene among the general science community and cemented the place of this polymeric material in the history of chemistry.This final chapter discusses the details of the awarding of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with particular discussion on the nature of discovery.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Shared with Victor Grignard “for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry” [2].

  2. 2.

    See Chap. 3.

  3. 3.

    See Chap. 4.

  4. 4.

    See Chap. 5.

  5. 5.

    In 2000, this was equal to ca. $982,300 US.

  6. 6.

    Although the most familiar expression of this statement in English is by Isaac Newton in 1675, the origin of the statement has been traced to the 12th century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres [58].

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Rasmussen, S.C. (2018). 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In: Acetylene and Its Polymers. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95489-9_7

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