Recognition
- Victoria University of Wellington gave MacDiarmid an honorary doctorate in 1999 and in 2001 created the Alan MacDiarmid Chair in Physical Chemistry. The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and the Alan MacDiarmid building, opened in May 2010, at the university are named after him.
- Awarded the 1999 American Chemical Society Award in Materials Chemistry.
- In 2000 the Royal Society of New Zealand awarded him its top honour, the Rutherford Medal.
- In 2002, he was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
- In 2002, MacDiarmid was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, which is the highest honour the country awards.
- In 2004, he received the Friendship Award, the highest honour of the People's Republic of China for foreign experts.
- The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas was named after him posthumously in 2007.
- The Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute at Jilin University in China was named after him since 2001.
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