Birth Name:

Hideki Shirakawa

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Aug 20, 1936

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Age:

87

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

26°

Leo

54'

About Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, Shirakawa Hideki, born August 20, 1936) 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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Hideki Shirakawa on Nobelprize.org Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2000 The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers

• Official Homepage in Japanese

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Categories related to Hideki Shirakawa: Living people, August 20 births, People from Gifu Prefecture, Polymer scientists and engineers, Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni, Nobel laureates in Chemistry, 1936 births, Recipients of the Order of Culture, University of Tsukuba faculty, Japanese Nobel laureates, Japanese scientists

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