Alan j heeger biography

American physicist and chemist (born 1936)

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

Heegar was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for co-founding the field of conducting polymers and for pioneering work in making these novel materials available for technological applications.

Life and career

Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa, into a Jewish family. He grew up in Akron, Iowa, where his father owned a general store.

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At age nine, following his father's death, the family moved to Sioux City.^[1]

Heeger earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1957, and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. From 1962 to 1982 he was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1982 he commenced his present appointment as a professor in the Physics Department and the Materials Depa Alan Heeger | Alan Heeger Lab | UC Santa Barbara LEFET