Quotes by Alan J. Heeger - Page 1

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.
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Teen
Accomplishment
Frustrating
Ruth
School Years
Typical
Meeting
Teen Years
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The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.
Alan J. Heeger /
Chemistry
Metallic
Physics
Inherently
Intersection
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The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
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Critical
Defined
Phase
Scaling
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I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.
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Colleagues
Physicist
Evolved
Scientific
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In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
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Controversy
Evidence
Metallic
Spite
Transport
Measurements
Optical
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In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.
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Conducting
Materials
Founded
Commercial
Corporation
Developed
Paul
Smith
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Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.
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Importance
Synthesis
Discoveries
Dominated
Modem
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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 was his 45th birthday.
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Birthday
Nine
Weak
Franklin Roosevelt
Hospital
Roosevelt
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The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.
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Behavior
Critical
Magnetic
Metallic
External
Increasing
Induced
Transitions
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Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Chemistry
Materials
Prehistoric
Twentieth Century
Basis
Bone
Dates
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Fibers
Molecular
Organic
Twentieth
Wood
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My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.
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Awakening
Combination
Nebraska
Pursue
Undergraduate
Life Time Science
Concept
Life Science Time
Partying
Special Time
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