Adam Heller

Background

Heller, Adam was born on June 25, 1933 in Cluj, Romania. Son of Ephraim and Blanche (Nissel) Heller.

Education

Master of Science, Hebrew University, 1957, Doctor of Philosophy, 1961, Doctorate honoris causa Uppsala University, Sweden, 1991. Postdoctoral research associate University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1963. Member technical staff Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1963-1964,1975-1977.

Member technical staff General Telephone and Electric laboratories, Bayside, New York, 1964-1970, manager exploratory research, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1970-1975.

Head electronic materials research department, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, 1977-1988. Ernest Cockrell Senior Chair professor chemical engineering, chemistry and materials science engineering, University Texas, Austin, 1988.

Lecturer The Berkeley lectures in Engineering, 1991, The ELTECH lectures Case Western Reserve University, 1997. Member of advisory board National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, 1987-1993.

Member of advisory commission Basic Energy Sciences Department Energy, 1993-1996.

Research professor Brandeis University, Waltham, 1972-1975. Adjunct professor of chemistry City University of New York, 1968-1988. Visiting professor College de France, Paris, 1982.

Regents lecturer University of California at Los Angeles, 1984.

Gerhard M. Schmidt Memorial lecturer Weizmann Institute, Israel. Distinguished professor of University Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1984.

Beverly and Raymond Sackler distinguished lecturer Tel-Aviv University, 1987.

Career

Editor: Semiconductor Liquid Junction Solar Cells, 1977, Inorganic Resists, 1982.

Achievements

• Adam Heller has been listed as a noteworthy chemist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for Advances of Sciences. Member National Academy of Engineering, International Society Electrochemistry, International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry (associate, committee photochemistry).

Connections

Married Ilana Grossbard, July 26, 1956. Children: Ephraim, Jonathan.

Father:

Ephraim Heller

Mother:

Blanche (Nissel) Heller

Spouse:

Ilana Grossbard

child:

Jonathan Heller

child:

Ephraim Heller