(1/3) Alan J. Heeger - Born on January 22, 1936 in Sioux City, IA, U.S.A. Earned a Ph.D. from the University of California in Berkeley, U.S.A. He is currently working with the University of California at Santa Barbara. He recieved a third of the nobel prize for the discovery and development of conductive polymers. (1/3) Alan G. MacDiarmid - Born on April 14, 1927 in Masterton, New Zealand. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1953 and at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1955. He is currently working at the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. While there documented the discovery and development of conductive polymers which won him part of the Nobel Prize. (1/3) Hideki Shirakawa - Born on August 20, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan. He acquired a Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1966. He is currently working at the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. While there documented the discovery and development of conductive polymers which won him part of the Nobel Prize.