MacDiarmid

American

[muhk-dur-mid] / məkˈdɜr mɪd /

noun

Hugh Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978, Scottish poet.

MacDiarmid British

/ məkˈdɜːmɪd /

noun

Hugh, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve. 1892–1978, Scottish poet; a founder of the Scottish National Party. His poems include A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

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Mr Salmond ended by saying the poet Hugh MacDiarmid had once described Robert Burns as "the true radical spirit of Scotland" and said that is "exactly how we should remember Winnie Ewing".

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2023

MacDiarmid agreed to transport the artifact to the United States in early June.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2021

McIntosh echoes an earlier writer of the Highlands, Hugh MacDiarmid, by raising the question of what a small island might bring to a bigger one.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2017

Chemists Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid collaborated with Shirakawa in 1976to boost the material’s conductivity by doping with halogens, and went on to make a ‘polymer battery’.

From Nature • Jul. 24, 2013

Readers of this Golden Treasury will recognize that it is a serious lark, as well as a gay one, that Editor MacDiarmid is speaking of: Hall of Flame.

From Time Magazine Archive

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