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1 online resource |
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Prologue; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Perfect Days -- and Some Not so Perfect; Chapter 2 The First Indication of Creativity; Chapter 3 Miracles Actually Happen!; Chapter 4 Coming to Acceptance of My Mortality; Chapter 5 The Wart and the Penny: The Importance of Uncorrelated Events; Chapter 6 "Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go"; Chapter 7 Passion for a Career as a Physicist; Chapter 8 From Novice to Professor; Chapter 9 The Pathway to Great Science; Becoming a Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania; Chapter 10 "Fire and Rain"; Chapter 11 Risk, Creativity and Discovery -- Again |
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Chapter 12 The Nobel Prize in ChemistryChapter 13 The Creativity Continues: High Mobility Polymer Thin Film Transistors; Chapter 14 Decision to Go West -- Was it the KGB?; Chapter 15 Life and Science in Santa Barbara; Chapter 16 The California Entrepreneur: UNIAX Corporation; Chapter 17 The Impact of Theater in our Lives; Chapter 18 Low-Cost "Plastic" Solar Cells -- A Dream Becoming Reality; Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells; Konarka Technologies, Inc.; Chapter 19 The Serial Entrepreneur; September 11, 2001 -- The Birth of CBRITE Inc.; Cynvenio and CytomX |
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Chapter 20 The Delicacy of the Creative MindChapter 21 The Joy of Life; Final Comments: Mentoring Young Scientists; Mentoring Post-doctoral Researchers and Graduate Students; Mentoring Graduate Students; Index |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Heeger, Alan J
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| SUBJECT |
Heeger, Alan J. fast |
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Chemists -- United States -- Biography
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Nobel Prize winners.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- General.
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Chemists
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Nobel Prize winners
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789814719551 |
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9814719552 |
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