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
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)
Alan J. Heeger
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Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
Hideki Shirakawa
…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. Hideki Shirakawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, the second son of a military doctor. He had one elder and one younger brother and sister. Olympic marathoner…
Heeger in 2013