
	Where results make sense

Topic: Alan Heeger

In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Faculty Profile: Alan J. Heeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heeger is also chief scientist for UNIAX, a company he founded that was acquired last year by Dupont.
		In 1977 Heeger and his colleagues discovered conducting polymers, a novel class of materials with electrical and optical properties like metals and semiconductors coupled with the mechanical and processing advantages of polymers.
		Applications of work by Heeger and his associates include conducting polymer blends for electromagnetic shielding and for antistatic packaging, and semiconducting polymers for use in the emerging field of plastic electronic devices, which already include diodes.
	www.catalog.ucsb.edu /2002cat/profiles/heeger.htm (159 words)

	Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
		Alan Heeger obtained his B.S. with High Distinction from the University of Nebraska in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.
		Heeger has won numerous awards including 1995 Balzan Prize, "Science of New Materials", Bern, Switzerland, 1998 Doctor of Faculty of Science (H.C.) Abo Akademi University, Finland, 2000 Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK and the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
		Heeger shared the Nobel Prize for his role in the revolutionary discovery that plastics can have the properties of metals and semiconductors, a finding that created an important new field of research.
	www.c2c.ucsb.edu /summit2007/bio_alan_heeger.php (179 words)

	Heeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alan J. Heeger and his colleagues discovered conducting polymers, a novel class of materials with electrical and optical properties like metals and semiconductors, coupled with the mechanical and processing advantages of polymers.
		Heeger and two other scientists, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa, made their seminal findings at the end of the1970s and have subsequently developed conductive polymers into a research field of great importance for chemists as well as physicists.
		Heeger and his fellow Nobel Laureates were rewarded for their revolutionary discovery that plastic can be made electrically conductive.
	www.geocities.com /bioelectrochemistry/heeger.htm (1774 words)

	UMUC President's Inauguration Is Celebrated Worldwide
		Alan Heeger was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for helping develop plastic that conducts electricity.
		Heeger, the university’s fourth president since 1947, has already had an important impact on the university’s faculty, staff, and students in 29 countries since taking the post in August of last year.
		Heeger was invited this past summer to testify before the bipartisan Web-Based Education Commission, established by Congress in 1998.
	www.umuc.edu /press/news67.html (623 words)

	PARC Forum \| September 1, 2006
		Alan J. Heeger and his colleagues discovered conducting polymers, a novel class of materials with electrical and optical properties like metals and semiconductors, coupled with the mechanical and processing advantages of polymers.
		Alan J. Heeger received his BS degree with high distinction in 1957 from the University of Nebraska, and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.
		Currently, Professor Heeger and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have done pioneering research in the area of highly conducting organic solids with recent emphasis on the class of materials known as semiconducting and metallic polymers.
	www.parc.com /cms/get_article.php?id=580 (415 words)

	Bio.Alan J. Heeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alan J. Heeger received his BS degree with high distinction in 1957 from the University of Nebraska, and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.
		Heeger became Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1982.
		Currently, Professor Heeger and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have done pioneering research in the area of highly conducting organic solids with recent emphasis on the class of materials known as semiconducting and metallic polymers.
	www.jspsusa.org /FORUM2001/bio.Heeger.htm (249 words)

	Lehigh University - Alan J. Heeger will hold a public master class
		Alan J. Heeger will hold a public master class for undergraduate and graduate students when he visits Lehigh in February to talk about the risks and innovation that led to his winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.
		Heeger will question the students about their projects and suggest next steps, said Donald Rockwell, the Paul B. Reinhold Professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, who is helping to organize Heeger's visit.
		Heeger, who is professor of physics and professor of materials at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will discuss "Risk and Innovation in Science - A Personal History: The Route to the Nobel Prize" on Monday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m.
	www3.lehigh.edu /link?EN9FEB05- (354 words)

	Press Releases @ The Beach
		Alan J. Heeger, one of three co-winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in conductive polymers, will speak on Wednesday, March 16, during the 28th annual Nobel Laureate Lecture at California State University, Long Beach.
		Heeger, along with Professors Alan G. MacDiarmid of the University of Pennsylvania and Hideki Shirakawa of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, were recognized for their pioneering collaboration on developing plastics that conduct electrical currents.
		Heeger is a professor in the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids and Departments of Physics and Materials at UC Santa Barbara.
	www.ced.csulb.edu /press-release/story.cfm?hackid=209 (393 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : www.nzedge.com : Alan MacDiarmid
		Alan had to leave high school at age 16, after just three years, when his father retired on a very small pension and shifted to Kerikeri.
		Alan is the epitome of a research scientist embodying total dedication to his subject.
		Alan was preparing to travel to New Zealand, where he was scheduled to give a lecture on non-polluting renewable energy.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/macdiarmid.html (2721 words)

	[No title]
		Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa showed that polymers can conduct electricity if they are "doped" by removing or introducing electrons and if they consist alternately of single and double bonds between carbon atoms.
		Alan G. MacDiarmid (born April 14, 1927; mother, Ruby and father, Archibald MacDiarmid) grew up in New Zealand, and received his Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin 1953 and at University of Cambridge, UK, 1955.
		They worked together with Dr. Alan Heeger in order to understand the mechanisms of the appearance of conductivity in insulating polymers and finally came to a conclusion that it is possible to introduce carriers in polymers by doping: modifying polyacetylene by oxidation with halogen vapor.
	nobel-prize-winners.com /chemistry-awards/2000 (999 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alan Heeger is the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on conducting polymers.
		Heeger's research continues to focus on the science and technology of semiconducting and metallic polymers, including studies of polymer-based light-emitting displays, polymer Field Effect Transistors, polymer-based solar cells and polymer lasers.
		Prior to UCSB, Dr. Heeger was Professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1967-1982, and was an associate professor from 1962.
	www.ngenpartners.com /team_people.asp?id=heeger (264 words)

	Lehigh University - Dr. Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize Laureate Lecture
		Heeger will close with a short summary of “life after the Nobel Prize” including a description of some of his current activities in science and technology.
		Heeger has more than 700 publications in scientific journals and is widely known for his pioneering research in and the co-founding of the field of semiconducting and metallic polymers.
		Heeger holds approximately 50 patents, which have broad commercial potential for use in polymer electronics (“plastic” electronics) with applications in areas ranging from electroluminescent displays (for cell phones, PDAs and laptops) to solar cells and integrated electronic circuits.
	www3.lehigh.edu /engineering/news/DrAlanheegerlecture.asp (403 words)

	Alan G. MacDiarmid -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		New Zealand-born American chemist who, with Alan J. Heeger and Shirakawa Hideki, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals.
		MacDiarmid, Alan G. New Zealand-born American chemist who, with Alan J. Heeger and Shirakawa Hideki, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals.
		Heeger, Alan J. American chemist who, with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Shirakawa Hideki, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9383776 (748 words)

	PENN'S DIARMID AND FORMER PENN PHYSICIST HEEGER ARE AMONG WINNERS OF 2000 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
		UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA'S ALAN G. PHILADELPHIA - Alan G. MacDiarmid, Ph.D., Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of three recipients of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
		Heeger, 64, was a physicist on the Penn faculty from 1962 to 1983 and directed the University's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter from 1974 to 1981.
		MacDiarmid, Heeger, and Shirakawa were responsible for the 1977 synthesis and the electrical and chemical doping of polyacetylene, the prototypical conducting polymer, and the rediscovery of polyaniline, now the foremost industrial conducting polymer.
	www.seas.upenn.edu /whatsnew/2000/nobel.html (613 words)

	Consulate-General of Japan in New York : Japan Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa made their seminal findings at the end of the 1970s and have subsequently developed conductive polymers into a research field of great importance for chemists as well as physicists.
		Both professors also worked with Dr. Alan Heeger in order to understand the underlying mechanisms that appeared to endow insulating polymers with the ability to conduct electricity.
		In 1977, Shirakawa, Heeger, MacDiarmid and others published the results of their research and described their discoveries in the Journal of the Chemical Society, "Chemical Communications." As would be expected, this discovery was considered a major breakthrough in the field of polymer science.
	ny.cgj.org /en/c/vol_08-4/title_01.html (1380 words)

	Alan MacDiarmid: Nobel Prize winner in chemistry 2000
		Alan MacDiarmid was born in Masterton in 1927 and educated at the Hutt Valley High School and Victoria University College (a constituent college of the University of New Zealand which became the Victoria University of Wellington in 1962).
		Alan MacDiarmid's Nobel prize, shared with physicist Alan Heeger (USA) and chemist Hideki Shirakawa (Japan), was for the discovery and development of conductive organic polymers [2].
		Alan B Kaiser, BA, BSc (Hons), MSc (VUW), PhD, DIC (Lond), FRSNZ is Professor of Physics at the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
	ifs.massey.ac.nz /research/MacDiarmid/MacDiarmid.htm (2534 words)

	News and Information - The Ohio State University
		Alan J. Heeger, a Nobel laureate, is professor of physics and professor of materials (engineering) at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
		Heeger has long been aware of the potential for technology transfer of electronic polymers to the market place, and in 1990 he founded UNIAX Corporation in order to focus on technological applications.
		Nobel laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid holds the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology and is professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Texas at Dallas.
	www.osu.edu /news/newsitem1371 (1476 words)

	UNL Science News 10/02/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heeger's lecture, "Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials," will be followed by a reception in the Nebraska Union Heritage Room.
		The medal is named for Charles Bessey, a faculty member and chancellor at the University of Nebraska in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and one of the world's pioneers in botany.
		Heeger and two colleagues received the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of plastics that can be altered to become electrical conductors.
	www.unl.edu /pr/science/100201ascifi.html (246 words)

	A Live Wire With Plastics: Nobel Winner Alan Heeger - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alan was chatting away about his research, telling David about the latest and greatest in plastic materials.
		The Heegers have been a busy family - the other son Peter is an immunologist at Case Western University, and has also worked with his father.
		Heeger’s contribution was discovering a way to make plastics conduct electricity, opening up the possibilities for these commercial applications.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /news/2001/167.html (1463 words)

	Nobel Focus: Electricity through Plastic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa, then at the University of Pennsylvania, worked with polyacetylene, which consists of a long chain of carbon atoms, each bound to two neighboring carbons and a single hydrogen atom.
		Heeger recalls that, while the team was aware of possible commercial applications for the new class of conducting polymers, their research in the following years was always motivated by fundamental physics questions.
		Heeger, a physicist, is proud to have helped lay the groundwork for the field of semiconducting and metallic polymers, and to have received the chemistry Nobel Prize.
	focus.aps.org /v6/st18.html (710 words)

	Polymers the topic of IMS distinguished lecture- November 24, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alan Heeger, director of the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on Light Emission from Semiconducting Polymers: LEDs, Lasers and White Light for the Future.
		Heeger and Alan Macdiarmide, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Hideki Shirakwa, a professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, discovered metallic conducting polymers, a class of materials with electrical conductivity approaching that of copper and with strength exceeding that of steel.
		Heeger, who has more than 20 patents issued and pending, will be the 23rd person to deliver the IMS Distinguished Lecture.
	www.advance.uconn.edu /1997/971124/11249710.htm (472 words)

	Sigma Alpha Mu - News
		Heeger Wins Nobel Prize Dr. Alan J. Heeger, Nebraska '57, together with two others, has won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a significant honor to a frater who is a brilliant scholar and research scientist.
		Alan Heeger was initiated by his Sigma Omicron chapter at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, whence he had come from his hometown of Sioux City, Iowa.
		Fra Heeger traveled to Stockholm on December 10 where he received the Nobel Gold Medal from the hands of the King of Sweden; he also shared with his fellow chemistry laureates the monetary prize of $920,000.
	www.sam.org /h_heeger.asp (484 words)

	Two UCSB Engineering Faculty win Nobel Prizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Heeger's abstract discourse on condensed matter theory seemed to be invoking for MacDiarmid a chain of hydrogen atoms.
		Heeger, who had, after all, been initially motivated by questions in basic physics, had a very good time indeed pursuing the fundamental implications of the conducting polymer.
		Heeger's research group is one of three discovering in 1996 that optically pumped lasers of all colors can be made from conducting polymers.
	www.engineering.ucsb.edu /Announce/nobel/chemistry.html (1588 words)

	Fantasy materializes for Penn chemistry professor
		Alan G. MacDiarmid, shown in an undated file photo, shares the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with two collaborators.
		Alan G. MacDiarmid, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry today for developing polymer plastics that conduct electricity, likened his winning the award to gambling.
		The New Zealand-born MacDiarmid, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania; Alan Heeger, 64, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Japan's Hideki Shirakawa, 64, of the University of Tsukuba, share the prize, worth nine million Swedish crowns ($913,700) this year.
	www.lrsm.upenn.edu /lrsm/macdiarmid (570 words)

	A Live Wire With Plastics: Nobel Winner Alan Heeger - Daily Nexus
		Alan was chatting away about his research, telling David about the latest and greatest in plastic materials.
		Heeger’s contribution was discovering a way to make plastics conduct electricity, opening up the possibilities for these commercial applications.
		His lab work at UC Berkeley led to a degree in condensed matter physics and a position as assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he would stay for the next 20 years, climbing the ranks from assistant to associate professor, to professor, and finally, for his last year, to vice provost for research.
	www.dailynexus.com /article.php?a=167 (1467 words)

	Nobel Laureate’s 2-day visit electrifying - The Brown and White
		Heeger, along with colleagues Alan MacDiarmid of the University of Pennsylvania and Hideki Shirakawa of the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo, is credited with the discovery and development of conductive polymers as plastic electronics.
		During his lecture, Heeger said that while he studied and researched primarily in the field of physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry.
		Heeger called on the works of several pivotal scientists and researchers throughout history who combined this type of creativity with a willingness to take scientific risks.
	www.bw.lehigh.edu /story.asp?ID=18441 (781 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)