Hideki Shirakawa
Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). is a Japanese chemist and engineer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.[1]
Shirakawa was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a critic of the Nobel Prize and its media coverage.[2]
Hideki Shirakawa Media
Shirakawa with Yoshirō Mori (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on October 18, 2000)
Emperor Akihito conferred the Order of Culture on Shirakawa (at the Imperial Palace on November 3, 2000)
References
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
- ↑ "Shirakawa unhappy with way Japanese media reports Nobel issues | The Japan Times". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2021-01-14.