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Encyclopedia > Alan Heeger

Alan J. Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physicsacademic and nobel prize winner. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 along with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers". He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.


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  • UCSB profile (http://www.ipos.ucsb.edu/ajh.html)
  • Nobel Prize Documentation (http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/index.html)



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Alan Heeger obtained his B.S. with High Distinction from the University of Nebraska in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.
Heeger has won numerous awards including 1995 Balzan Prize, "Science of New Materials", Bern, Switzerland, 1998 Doctor of Faculty of Science (H.C.) Abo Akademi University, Finland, 2000 Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK and the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Heeger shared the Nobel Prize for his role in the revolutionary discovery that plastics can have the properties of metals and semiconductors, a finding that created an important new field of research.
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