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Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, Shirakawa Hideki, born August 20, 1936) is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is 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 .
Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese polymer scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for his work on polyacetylene. Learn about his childhood, education, research, and discovery of polyacetylene film.
Shirakawa Hideki (born August 20, 1936, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese chemist who, with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Alan J. Heeger, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically altered to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals.
Hideki Shirakawa. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000. Born: 20 August 1936, Tokyo, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. Prize motivation: “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers” Prize share: 1/3. Work.
Shirakawa: From Small-Town Japan to Tokyo’s Institute of Technology. Hideki Shirakawa is the third of five children born in Tokyo to a medical doctor and a daughter of the chief priest of a Buddhist temple in Takayama. The family returned to his mother’s hometown, far from Japan’s major cities, in the closing days of World War II.
Learn about the life and achievements of Dr. SHIRAKAWA, the Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his pioneering work on conductive polymers. Find out how he synthesized polyacetylene, created metallic conductivity, developed liquid crystalline polymers, and more.
The Laureates talk about their scientific work together during the years; the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration (7:37); research problems (11:06); the process of discovery (17:37); characteristics of a good scientist (19:58); and their respective recreational interests (22:31).
