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Hideki Shirakawa

Japanese scientist

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born: 1936
died: 2026
age at death: 90
known for: chemist, engineer, professor

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Hideki Shirakawa was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He was 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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