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Alan J. Heeger


(born Jan. 22, 1936, Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.) U.S. chemist. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. With Alan G. MacDiarmid and Shirakawa Hideki, Heeger determined that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals. The finding led to the discovery of other conductive polymers and contributed to the emerging field of molecular electronics. Heeger, who taught at several institutions, founded the UNIAX Corp. in 1990. In 2000 he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with MacDiarmid and Shirakawa.

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Alan Jay Heeger
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Born January 22 1936 (1936--) (age 71)
Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Field Chemistry, Physics
Institutions University of California, Santa Barbara
Notable prizes Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, chemist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He earned his Ph.D in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1961. 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. His research has led to the formation of numerous start-up companies including Uniax, Konarka, and Sirigen, founded in 2003 by Guillermo C. Bazan, Patrick J. Dietzen, Brent S. Gaylord. Alan Heeger was a founder of Uniax, which was acquired by DuPont. His sons are the neuroscientist David Heeger and the immunologist Peter Heeger.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates

William Lipscomb (1976) • Ilya Prigogine (1977) • Peter D. Mitchell (1978) • Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig (1979) • Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger (1980) • Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann (1981) • Aaron Klug (1982) • Henry Taube (1983) • Robert Merrifield (1984) • Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle (1985) • Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi (1986) • Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen (1987) • Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel (1988) • Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech (1989) • Elias Corey (1990) • Richard R. Ernst (1991) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1992) • Kary Mullis / Michael Smith (1993) • George Olah (1994) • Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / Frank Rowland (1995) • Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley (1996) • Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou (1997) • Walter Kohn / John Pople (1998) • Ahmed Zewail (1999) • Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa (2000)

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NAME Heeger, Alan Jay
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SHORT DESCRIPTION American chemist, physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Sioux City, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH
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