The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
Awarded on: 2000-10-10
"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
Affiliations:
- University of Tsukuba – Tsukuba, Japan
Hideki Shirakawa
Born: 1936-08-20 in Tokyo, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese chemist and engineer (1936–2026)
Biography
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.