Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.

20 August 1936

Born on the same birth day (20 August): Aleksandre Amisulashvili • Artur Kotenko • Gus Macdonald • Hamza Abdullah • Isaac Hayes • Mike Jackson (Texas politician) • Prince Gabriel of Belgium • Ray Wise • Rudolf Bultmann • Santeri Kinnunen

Born in the same month (August 1936): Alan Hodgkinson • Anita Gillette • Dale Hawkins • Don Denkinger • Frank Howard (baseball) • Henry Lee Lucas • Jan Pieńkowski • Laurie Taylor (sociologist) • Rudy Lewis • Warren M. Washington