Alan Jay Heeger Biography - Nobel Prize Winner (2000)

Alan Jay Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physics academic and nobel prize winner.

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 son is the neuroscientist David Heeger.

 

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN CHEMISTRY PART II.

Grignard Victor

Grubbs Robert H

Haber Fritz

Hahn Otto

Harden Sir Arthur

Hassel Odd

Hauptman Herbert

Sir Walter Norman Haworth

Heeger Alan

Hershko Avram

Herschbach Dudley

Herzberg Gerhard

Heyrovsky Jaroslav

Hinshelwood Sir Cyril Norman

Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot

Hoff Jacobus Henricus

Hoffmann Roald

Huber Robert

Joliot-Curie Irene

Joliot Frederic

Karle Jerome

Karrer Paul

Kendrew Sir John Cowdery

Klug Sir Aaron

Knowles William

Kohn Walter

Kroto Sir Harold

Kuhn Richard

Langmuir Irving

Lee Yuan

Lehn Jean-Marie

Leloir Luis

Libby Willard Frank

Lipscomb William

MacDiarmid Alan G

MacKinnon Roderick

Marcus Rudolph A

Martin Archer John Porter

McMillan Edwin Mattison

Merrifield Robert Bruce

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