Alan J. Heeger

(1936- ) lived in Omaha and Lincoln. Educator, physicist, co-recipient of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery that plastic can, after certain modifications, be made electrically conductive. Consult Physics Today, Vol 36 (March 1983) 79-82 and New York Times, October 11, 2000, p. A-23 and Omaha World Herald, October 11, 2000, p. 1 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Winter 2000, p. 7.

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