
Nobel Laureate Hideki Shirakawa, Pioneer of Conductive Plastics, Dies at 90
The Japanese chemist, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering electrically conductive polymers, has died at age 90.
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The Japanese chemist, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering electrically conductive polymers, has died at age 90.

Hideki Shirakawa, the Japanese chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on conductive polymers, has died at the age of 90. His research fundamentally transformed materials science and enabled the development of modern flexible electronics.