Alan J. Heeger Quotes

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

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

Tags: school, wife, fun

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 wa...

Alan J. Heeger

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 wa...

Alan J. Heeger

Tags: day, father, strong

About Author

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.