Hideki Shirakawa:
Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
August 20, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan
Claim to Fame:
Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist who shares the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G. MacDiarmid for the discovery of conductive polymers. He developed polyacetylene and discovered it conducted electricity and enhanced the conductivity with Heeger and MacDiarmid.
