Alan J. Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physicsacademic and nobel prize winner . 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". He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

External links

UCSB profile http://www.ipos.ucsb.edu/ajh.html

Nobel Prize Documentation http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/index.html