Hideki Shirakawa
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 89 |
| Date of birth | August 20,1936 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Shinjuku City |
| Tokyo | |
| Japan | |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Spouse | Chiyoko Shibuya |
| Residence | Japan |
| Manchukuo | |
| Taiwan | |
| United States Of America | |
| Job | Engineer |
| Chemist | |
| Known for | Conductive polymer |
| Education | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| University of Tsukuba | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Academic advisor | Shū Kanbara |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 555682 |
Hideki Shirakawa Life story
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.