Alan J. Heeger
American physicist and academic (1936–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
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Born | Alan Jay Heeger (1936-01-22) January 22, 1936 (age 88) Sioux City, Iowa, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Nebraska University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | SSH model |
Spouse | Ruth (2 children) |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Balzan Prize ENI award Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1983) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, Chemistry |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thesis | Studies on the magnetic properties of canted antiferromagnets (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Portis |
Doctoral students | Fan Chunhai (postdoc student) |
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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.