Hideki Shirakawa
| Hideki Shirakawa | |
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Hideki Shirakawa
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| Born |
August 20, 1936 Tokyo, Japan |
| Residence |
Japan Manchukuo United States |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions |
University of Pennsylvania University of Tsukuba |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Conductive polymers |
| Influences | Alan G. MacDiarmid |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Person of Cultural Merit (2000) Order of Culture (2000) |
Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹 Shirakawa Hideki, born in Tokyo on August 20, 1936) is a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers together with physics professor Alan J. Heeger and chemistry professor Alan G. MacDiarmid at the University of Pennsylvania.
1936 Born in Tokyo, in the family of a military doctor. Around third grade, he moved to Takayama, Gifu, which is the hometown of his mother.
1961 Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Chemical engineering department in the School of Science and Engineering.
1966 Received doctorate from Chemical engineering department in Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Tokyo Tech. Obtained the post of assistant in Chemical Resources Laboratory at Tokyo Tech.
1976 Post-doctoral researcher in the University of Pennsylvania, USA with invitation by Alan MacDiarmid.
1979 Assistant professor in University of Tsukuba, Japan
1982 Professor in University of Tsukuba, Japan
1991 Chief of Science and Engineering Department of Graduate School in University of Tsukuba, Japan (- March,1993)
1994 Chief of Category #3 group in University of Tsukuba, Japan (-March,1997)
While employed as an assistant at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in Japan, he developed polyacetylene, which has a metallic appearance. This result interested Alan MacDiarmid when MacDiarmid visited TITech in 1975.
In 1976, he was invited to work in the laboratory of Alan MacDiarmid as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. The two developed the electrical conductivity of polyacetylene along with American physicist Alan Heeger.
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