Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000, announced October 10, 2000. Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa, “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”. Alan Heeger: born 1936, Sioux City, IA, USA. Alan MacDiarmid: born 1927, Masterton, New Zealand. Hideki Shirakawa: born 1936, Tokyo, Japan. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).