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Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in 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.
The high electrical conductivity discovered by Hideki Shirakawa, Alan Heeger, and Alan MacDiarmid for this polymer led to intense interest in the use of organic compounds in microelectronics (organic semiconductors). This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.
The two developed the electrical conductivity of polyacetylene along with American physicist Alan Heeger. [3] [4] In 1977 they discovered that doping with iodine vapor could enhance the conductivity of polyacetylene. The three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 in recognition of the discovery.
On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, so his wife could ...
Demi Moore's first Oscar may not be out of reach after "The Substance" star came out victorious at the Golden Globes last month and again at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday night.. Moore, 62 ...
The distinguished representatives of the international scientific community who have received the Eni award in the past include Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize winner in 1996 for Chemistry; Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Prize 2000 for Chemistry; and Theodor W. Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics. [6]
Robert Kuttner, a professor at Brandeis University, argued on Monday that even Adolf Hitler "knew to support German science," while attacking President Donald Trump’s latest spending cut target. ...
Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...