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Hideki Shirakawa
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Hideki Shirakawa
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| Born | August 20, 1936 Tokyo, Japan
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Conductive polymers |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Person of Cultural Merit (2000) Order of Culture (2000) |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of Tsukuba |
| Influences | Alan G. MacDiarmid |
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.
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