Nobel Laureate Hideki Shirakawa, Pioneer of Conductive Polymers, Dies at 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.
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Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 - AP News
Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 AP News
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The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct electricity like metal and be used in applications such as electronics.
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Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, a key component of modern touch screens, died late last month.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Hideki Shirakawa, a 2000 Nobel laureate in chemistry known for his discovery and development of conductive polymers, died in
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