Japanese Scientist Shirakawa, Co-Winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dies at 90
- Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has died at age 90.
- Shirakawa shared the Nobel Prize with Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid for discovering and developing conductive polymers.
- Their discovery showed that plastics could conduct electricity like metals, enabling new electronic applications.
- Shirakawa died on August 24 and worked at the University of Tsukuba after joining in 1979.
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Japanese Scientist, Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner Hideki Shirakawa Dies At 90
The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct electricity like metal and be used in applications such as electronics.
Tokyo, 3 Sep (EFE).- Japanese researcher Hideki Shirakawa, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for his role in the discovery and development of the first drivers, died last month in the town of Yokohama, where he resided, revealed on Thursday the public television station NHK. Shirakawa, professor emeritus [...] La entrada Die el nobel de Química Japanese Hideki Shirakawa a al 90 años se publicado primero en HolaNews.
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...
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