URGENT: 2000 Nobel prize laureate in chemistry Shirakawa dies at 90
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Hideki Shirakawa, an emeritus professor at the University of Tsukuba who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing "conductive polymers," which are plastics that conduct electricity, has passed away at the age of 90. According to Japanese media outlets including NHK on the 3rd, Professor Shirakawa died on the 24th of last month at a hospital in Yokohama. Professor Shirakawa was recognized for his contributions in discovering that…
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = Hideki Shirakawa, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for successfully developing electrically conductive plastic...
In 2000, the Japanese researcher received the award together with researchers Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, with whom he published, in 1977, an article with important contributions in the field of conductive polymers.
Hideki Shirakawa, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of electrically conductive plastics, died at 6:24 p.m. on August 24th at a hospital in Yokohama City due to metastatic liver tumors and cancer of unknown primary origin. He was 90 years old. His residence was in Aoba Ward, Yokohama City. Funeral arrangements…
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