What is Hideki Shirakawa?
[[File:Hideki Shirakawa.jpg|right|200px]] {{nobelprize|Chemistry}} {{Nihongo|'''Hideki Shirakawa'''|白川 英樹|Shirakawa Hideki|born August 20, 1936}} is a Japanese [[chemist]] and [[engineer]]. He is Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Tsukuba]] and [[Zhejiang University]]. He is best known for his discovery of [[conductive polymers]]. He won the 2000 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] with [[Alan MacDiarmid]] and [[Alan Heeger]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000]</ref> Shirakawa was born in [[Tokyo]]. He studied at the [[Tokyo Institute of Technology]]. He is a critic of the [[Nobel Prize]] and its media coverage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/science-health/shirakawa-unhappy-way-japanese-media-reports-nobel-issues/#.WciWsbIjGJA |title=Shirakawa unhappy with way Japanese media reports Nobel issues {{!}} The Japan Times |access-date=2021-01-14 |archive-date=2017-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925132527/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/science-health/shirakawa-unhappy-way-japanese-media-reports-nobel-issues/#.WciWsbIjGJA |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shirakawa, Hideki}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Japanese chemists]] [[Category:Japanese engineers]] [[Category:Scientists from Tokyo]] [[Category:Chemical engineers]] {{bio-stub}} {{Nobel Prize in Chemistry}}