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Alan J. Heeger

American chemist, physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1936 · age 90

Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

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2011Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2007Gold medal of the Spanish National Research CouncilAward2000Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward1995Balzan PrizeAward1989John Scott AwardAward1983Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeAward1936Born22 January 1936

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2011
Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council2007
Nobel Prize in Chemistry2000
Balzan Prize1995
John Scott Award1989
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize1983
Guggenheim Fellowship
Honorary Doctor of the University of Alicante
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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United States
Category
Scientists
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Born 1936 · age 90

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Bertram BrockhouseBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeJohn Robert SchriefferBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeDaniel C. TsuiBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeDuncan HaldaneBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeRobert Coleman RichardsonBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeJohn HopfieldBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize