Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa was born on August 20, 1936. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Hideki Shirakawa
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.