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Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki ShirakawaBorn: 20-Aug-1936
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Metallic polymers

Father: Hatsutarou (physician)
Mother: Fuyuno
Wife: Chiyoko Shibuya (m. 1966, two sons)
Son: Chihiro
Son: Yasuki

    University: PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1966)
    Professor: Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba (1966-2000)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2000 (with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G. MacDiarmid)
    Japanese Ancestry



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