Congratulation Fax from Ormecon to A. Heeger and A. MacDiarmid

On Oct 11, 2000, we wrote to Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger:

Dear Alan,
Dear Alan,

at 3.15 p.m. MEZ I was visiting the University of Linz, Serdar Sariciftcy, and we were discussing conductive polymers (later I gave a seminar presentation). And what a surprise, when 2 minutes later Serdar’s students came in and announced what they have read in the internet: You are - together with Hideki Shirakawa - the winner of the Nobel Price in chemistry this year!

Please accept my deep heart congratulations, and also the whole Ormecon team would like to congratulate.

This Nobel Price is the appropriate expression for your scientific achievement which started a world-wide broad research activity. I would like to thank you for your initiative contribution in 1977, because also I personally was pushed by this publication to enter the field 2 years later.

Without your early work, our company would not have been founded and could not have successfully entered the market with polyaniline - a conductive polymer and now even an Organic Metal.

Thank you very much and have fun with the Nobel Price.

With my best regards

Ormecon Chemie GmbH & Co. KG

(Dr. Bernhard Wessling)