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Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

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

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