Person

Alan J. Heeger

b. 1936

American chemist, physicist

Born
22 Jan 1936 · Sioux City

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 22 Jan 1936BornBorn in Sioux City
  2. 1983AwardOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
  3. 1989AwardJohn Scott Award
  4. 1995AwardBalzan Prize
  5. 2000AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  6. 2007AwardGold medal of the Spanish National Research Council
  7. 2011AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1936 – today).

  1. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  2. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  3. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1938Munich Agreement
  5. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  6. 1939 – 1945World War II
  7. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  8. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  9. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  10. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  11. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  12. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  13. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  14. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  16. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  17. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  19. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  20. 1956Suez Crisis
  21. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  23. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  25. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  27. 1968Prague Spring
  28. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  29. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  30. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  31. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  33. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  34. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  35. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  36. 1985Schengen Agreement
  37. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  38. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  39. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Biography

Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

Heeger 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.

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