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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Although Back Basis Been Bone Century Chemistry Dates Development Eighteenth Fibers Form Man Materials Molecular Organic Prehistoric Science Since Skin Time Twentieth Twentieth Century Used Wood

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The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Chemistry Falls Inherently Intersection Physics Science

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Birthday Day Died Father Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Go Had He Heart His Hospital Memory Nine Old Roosevelt Same Strong Weak Years

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Accomplishment Frustrating Fun High High School Important Meeting Most Ruth School Teen Teen Years The Most Important Typical Were Wife Years

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Awakening Becoming Career Combination Concept Could Engineer Goal Had Intellectual Life My Life Nebraska Partying Pursue Science Special Supposed Time Undergraduate University Were Years

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Commercial Conducting Corporation Decided Developed Founded Goal Had Level Materials Maturity Paul Possible Products Smith Were

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Development Discoveries Dominated Great Importance Industry Karl Synthesis Were Whose 1950S

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Am Become Colleagues Community Evolved Help However International Many Out Physicist Scientific Scientist Started I Am

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Critical Defined Phase Point Theory Transition True Well

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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.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Been Controversy Evidence Measurements Optical Spite State Subject Transition Transport

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 22nd, 1936

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