Alan J. Heeger

Alan J. Heeger
Heeger in 2013
Born
Alan Jay Heeger

(1936-01-22) January 22, 1936 (age 88)
Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
University of California, Berkeley
Known forSSH model
SpouseRuth (2 children)
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (2000)
Balzan Prize
ENI award
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1983)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
University of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisStudies on the magnetic properties of canted antiferromagnets (1962)
Doctoral advisorAlan Portis
Doctoral studentsFan Chunhai (postdoc student)

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.