Biography of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In the United States he was born in the Sioux City of Iowa in 1936. In 1961 he earned a PhD degree from Berkeley, the University of California and until 1982 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then he has been a professor of physics at the University of California in Santa Bárbara and director of the Institute of Organic Polymers and Solids.