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Alan J. Heeger - Wikipedia

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Alan J. Heeger
Heeger in 2013
Born	Alan Jay Heeger (1936-01-22) January 22, 1936 (age 88) Sioux City, Iowa, United States
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)

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.

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. 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 Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has led to the formation of numerous start-up companies including Uniax, Konarka, and Sirigen, founded in 2003 by Guillermo C. Bazan, Patrick J. Dietzen, Brent S. Gaylord. Alan Heeger was a founder of Uniax, which was acquired by DuPont.

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"; They published their results on polyacetylene a conductive polymer in 1977.^[2]^[3] This led to the construction of the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model, a simple model for topological insulators.

He had won the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 1983 and, in 1995, the Balzan Prize for Science of Non-Biological Materials.

His sons are the neuroscientist David Heeger and the immunologist Peter Heeger.

In October 2010, Heeger participated in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize-winning scientist over a brown-bag lunch.^[4] Heeger is also a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board.^[5] Heeger has been a judge of the STAGE International Script Competition three times (2006, 2007, 2010).^[6]

"Perhaps the greatest pleasure of being a scientist is to have an abstract idea, then to do an experiment (more often a series of experiments is required) that demonstrates the idea was correct; that is, Nature actually behaves as conceived in the mind of the scientist. This process is the essence of creativity in science. I have been fortunate to have experienced this intense pleasure many times in my life." Alan J Heeger, Never Lose Your Nerve!^[7]

Publication list

Journal Articles:

Heeger, Alan (1977). "One-Dimensional Phonons and "Phase-Ordering" Phase Transition in Hg3-deltaAsF6". Physical Review Letters. 39 (23): 1484–1487. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..39.1484H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1484.
Heeger, Alan (1977). "Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene". Physical Review Letters. 39 (17): 1098–1101. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..39.1098C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1098.

Technical Reports:

Heeger, A. J. and A. G. MacDiarmid. "Polyacetylene, (CH)_x, as an Emerging Material for Solar Cell Applications. Final Technical Report, March 19, 1979 – March 18, 1980," University of Pennsylvania, United States Department of Energy, (June 5, 1980).
Heeger, A. J., Sinclair, M., et al. "Subgap Absorption in Conjugated Polymers," Sandia National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, (1991).
Heeger, A. J., Sinclair, M., et al. "Measurements of Photo-induced Changes in Conjugated Polymers," Sandia National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, (1991).

Autobiography

Heeger, Alan J (2015). Never Lose Your Nerve!. doi:10.1142/9724. ISBN 978-981-4704-85-4., World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 978-981-4704-85-4

References

^ "Alan Heeger – Biographical". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Shirakawa, Hideki; Louis, Edwin J.; MacDiarmid, Alan G.; Chiang, Chwan K.; Heeger, Alan J. (1977). "Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: Halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH) x". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (16): 578. doi:10.1039/C39770000578. Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000: Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa".
^ "Lunch with a Laureate". Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-12-09.
^ "Advisors". Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
^ "STAGE Judges". Retrieved 25 October 2011.
^ Never Lose Your Nerve! http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9724

External links

Curriculum Vitae of Alan J. Heeger, posted at University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 18, 2007
Alan J. Heeger on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel lecture December 8, 2000 Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials
Free to view video interview, Harry Kroto NL talks to Alan Heeger, 2005, provided by the Vega Science Trust
UCSB profile
Photos and video from presentation in Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

v t e Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1901–1925	1901: Jacobus van 't Hoff 1902: Emil Fischer 1903: Svante Arrhenius 1904: William Ramsay 1905: Adolf von Baeyer 1906: Henri Moissan 1907: Eduard Buchner 1908: Ernest Rutherford 1909: Wilhelm Ostwald 1910: Otto Wallach 1911: Marie Curie 1912: Victor Grignard / Paul Sabatier 1913: Alfred Werner 1914: Theodore Richards 1915: Richard Willstätter 1916 1917 1918: Fritz Haber 1919 1920: Walther Nernst 1921: Frederick Soddy 1922: Francis Aston 1923: Fritz Pregl 1924 1925: Richard Zsigmondy
1926–1950	1926: Theodor Svedberg 1927: Heinrich Wieland 1928: Adolf Windaus 1929: Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin 1930: Hans Fischer 1931: Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius 1932: Irving Langmuir 1933 1934: Harold Urey 1935: Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie 1936: Peter Debye 1937: Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer 1938: Richard Kuhn 1939: Adolf Butenandt / Leopold Ružička 1940 1941 1942 1943: George de Hevesy 1944: Otto Hahn 1945: Artturi Virtanen 1946: James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley 1947: Robert Robinson 1948: Arne Tiselius 1949: William Giauque 1950: Otto Diels / Kurt Alder
1951–1975	1951: Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg 1952: Archer Martin / Richard Synge 1953: Hermann Staudinger 1954: Linus Pauling 1955: Vincent du Vigneaud 1956: Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov 1957: Alexander Todd 1958: Frederick Sanger 1959: Jaroslav Heyrovský 1960: Willard Libby 1961: Melvin Calvin 1962: Max Perutz / John Kendrew 1963: Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta 1964: Dorothy Hodgkin 1965: Robert Woodward 1966: Robert S. Mulliken 1967: Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter 1968: Lars Onsager 1969: Derek Barton / Odd Hassel 1970: Luis Federico Leloir 1971: Gerhard Herzberg 1972: Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein 1973: Ernst Otto Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson 1974: Paul Flory 1975: John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog
1976–2000	1976: William Lipscomb 1977: Ilya Prigogine 1978: Peter D. Mitchell 1979: Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig 1980: Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger 1981: Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann 1982: Aaron Klug 1983: Henry Taube 1984: Robert Merrifield 1985: Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle 1986: Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi 1987: Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen 1988: Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel 1989: Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech 1990: Elias Corey 1991: Richard R. Ernst 1992: Rudolph A. Marcus 1993: Kary Mullis / Michael Smith 1994: George Olah 1995: Paul J. Crutzen / Mario Molina / F. Sherwood Rowland 1996: Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley 1997: Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou 1998: Walter Kohn / John Pople 1999: Ahmed Zewail 2000: Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa
2001–present	2001: William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless 2002: John B. Fenn / Koichi Tanaka / Kurt Wüthrich 2003: Peter Agre / Roderick MacKinnon 2004: Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko / Irwin Rose 2005: Robert H. Grubbs / Richard R. Schrock / Yves Chauvin 2006: Roger D. Kornberg 2007: Gerhard Ertl 2008: Osamu Shimomura / Martin Chalfie / Roger Y. Tsien 2009: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan / Thomas A. Steitz / Ada E. Yonath 2010: Richard F. Heck / Akira Suzuki / Ei-ichi Negishi 2011: Dan Shechtman 2012: Robert Lefkowitz / Brian Kobilka 2013: Martin Karplus / Michael Levitt / Arieh Warshel 2014: Eric Betzig / Stefan Hell / William E. Moerner 2015: Tomas Lindahl / Paul L. Modrich / Aziz Sancar 2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage / Fraser Stoddart / Ben Feringa 2017: Jacques Dubochet / Joachim Frank / Richard Henderson 2018: Frances Arnold / Gregory Winter / George Smith 2019: John B. Goodenough / M. Stanley Whittingham / Akira Yoshino 2020: Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer Doudna 2021: David MacMillan / Benjamin List 2022: Carolyn R. Bertozzi / Morten P. Meldal / Karl Barry Sharpless 2023: Moungi G. Bawendi / Louis E. Brus / Alexei I. Ekimov 2024: David Baker / Demis Hassabis / John M. Jumper

v t e 2000 Nobel Prize laureates
Chemistry	Alan J. Heeger (United States) Alan G. MacDiarmid (United States/New Zealand) Hideki Shirakawa (Japan)
Literature (2000)	Gao Xingjian (China/France)
Peace	Kim Dae-jung (South Korea)
Physics	Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia) Herbert Kroemer (Germany) Jack St. Clair Kilby (United States)
Physiology or Medicine	Arvid Carlsson (Sweden) Paul Greengard (United States) Eric R. Kandel (United States)
Economic Sciences	James Heckman (United States) Daniel McFadden (United States)
Nobel Prize recipients 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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