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Professor Alan G MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
On 8 February 2002 a copy of "The Boy Chemist" was presented to Professor Alan G MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2000, by the people of New Zealand. Thirty copies were made and most of the people that now own them were at the small ceremony and dinner held at Science House, Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington. The original 1924 edition from which the copies were made resides in the specialist children's Dorothy Neal White Collection at the National Library of New Zealand.
Caption: Alan MacDiarmid first holding "The Boy Chemist" after a gap of 65 years - with George Jones, Royal Society of NZ and Lynne Jackett, National Library of NZ.
Professor Alan G MacDiarmid, wrote, "My interest in Chemistry was kindled when I was about ten years old at which time I found one of my father's old chemistry text books dating back to the late 1800's when he was studying engineering. I spent hours pouring over the pages in complete con fusion but with burning curiosity! Some clarification of a type occurred when I rode my bicycle to the public library in Lower Hutt and entered the children's section. There on the right hand side on the bottom shelf, in the new books section, was a book with a bright blue cover. It was called, "The Boy Chemist." I took it out and continually renewed it by borrowing it for over a year and carried out most of the experiments in it."
"The Boy Chemist" can be downloaded in PDF format. The book is by A. Frederick Collin and published 1924 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston.
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