Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
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Alan J. Heeger about Life:
My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: ...
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Alan J. Heeger about Transition:
In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport ...
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Alan J. Heeger about Science:
The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary, it falls at the intersection ...
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Alan J. Heeger about Goal:
In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to ...
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Alan J. Heeger about Birthday:
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had ...
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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 devotee into the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for co-founding the ground of conducting polymers and for pioneering accomplish in making these novel materials manageable for technological applications.
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Alan J. Heeger about Birthday:
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I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died, it was his 45th birthday.
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Alan J. Heeger about Community:
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I started out as a physicist, however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.
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Alan J. Heeger about Goal:
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In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.
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Alan J. Heeger about Transition:
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In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
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Alan J. Heeger about School:
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My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.
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Alan J. Heeger about Life:
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My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer, I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.
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Alan J. Heeger about Great:
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Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.
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Alan J. Heeger about Time:
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Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Alan J. Heeger about Transition:
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The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
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Alan J. Heeger about Science:
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The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary, it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.
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Alan J. Heeger about Behavior:
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The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.
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