Alan J. Heeger
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Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
Heeger in 2013
Hideki Shirakawa
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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-reci
Alan J. Heeger
…Gaylord. Alan Heeger was a founder of Uniax, which was acquired by DuPont. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 along with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"; They published their results on polyacetylene a conductive polymer in 1977. This led to…
Hideki Shirakawa in 2001
Shirakawa with Yoshirō Mori (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on October 18, 2000)
Emperor Akihito conferred the Order of Culture on Shirakawa (at the Imperial Palace on November 3, 2000)