Alan J. Heeger

Infobox Scientist
name = Alan Jay Heeger

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birth_place = Sioux City, Iowa, USA
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nationality = United States
field = Physics, Chemistry
work_institution = University of Pennsylvania
University of California, Santa Barbara
alma_mater = University of Nebraska
University of California, Berkeley
doctoral_advisor = Alan Portis
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prizes = Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska in 1957, and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. From 1962-1982 he was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1982 he commenced his present appointment as 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.

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;" in 1983 he had won the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society.

His sons are the neuroscientist David Heeger and the immunologist Peter Heeger.

External links

* [http://www.ipos.ucsb.edu/AJHFullCV.pdf "Curriculum Vitae of Alan J. Heeger"] , webpage posted at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
* [http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/127 Free to view video interview, Harry Kroto NL talks to Alan Heeger] provided by the Vega Science Trust.
* [http://www.ipos.ucsb.edu/ajh.html UCSB profile]
* [http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/index.html Nobel Prize Documentation]
* [http://www.vutbr.cz/heeger/?page=download&lang=en Photos and video from presentation in Brno University of Technology, Europe]

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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
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