HIDEKI SHIRAKAWA

2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.

• Born: August 20, 1936
• Education: Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology 1966
• Residence: Ibaraki, Japan
• Affiliation: Institute of Materials Science at University of Tsukuba
  • Address:
    Institute of Materials Sciences
    University of Tsukuba
    Sakura-mura, Ibaraki 305, Japan
  • E-mail: hideki@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp

• Books about conducting polymers

• Prize co-recipient: Alan J. Heeger
• Prize co-recipient: Alan G. MacDiarmid
• Webpage at University of Tsukuba (in Japanese)
• The birth of plastic electronics
• 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announcement and background
• Further information
• Advanced information on Research
• Suggested reading

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• The Chemistry Prize committee missed an earlier paper reporting a high-conductivity state of a polyacetylene derivative involving an active electronic device. (submitted by Peter H. Proctor, PhD, MD)
• Trends in Japan - Japanese Nobel Laureates (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Hideki Shirakawa – Nobel Lecture (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• To the youth of the World who aspire to a career in chemistry - Prof Hideki Shirakawa (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Home Page of the Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba (submitted by Thomas)
• nobel chemistry index
• Hideki Shirakawa - Plastic can be made to conduct electricity (submitted by john)
• Hideki Shirakawa – Autobiography (submitted by Stefany)
• Hideki Shirakawa – Biography in english (submitted by roman)
• Hideki Shirakawa Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• Shirakawa Hideki Short Biography (submitted by Lukas)
• HIDEKI SHIRAKAWA other (submitted by nobmer)

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