Professor HIDEKI SHIRAKAWA
is awarded the Nobel Prize
in chemistry, 2000.

Professor (Emeritus) Hideki Shirakawa (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan) was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2000 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science together with Professor Alan J. Heeger (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) and Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid (University of Pennsylvania, USA)  for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.

Press release from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Official web site of the Nobel foundation

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Jan. 2001    HIDEKI SHIRAKAWA is elected as a member to the counsil for Science and Technology policy, Japanese Cabinet Office