Born: 22-Jan-1936
Birthplace: Sioux City, IA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Metallic polymers

Father: (store proprietor, d. 1945)
Wife: Ruth (m. circa 1957, two sons)
Son: Peter
Son: David

    University: BS, University of Nebraska (1957)
    University: PhD Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1961)
    Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1962-82)
    Professor: University of California at Santa Barbara (1982-)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2000 (with Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa)
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1968
    Balzan Prize 1995
    American Physical Society 1968
    National Academy of Sciences 2001

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