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Hideki Shirakawa
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Professor Emeirtus SHIRAKAWA, who retired from the univeristy this spring, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000, with Dr. Heeger (Prof. of physics at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) and Dr. MacDiarmid (Prof. of chemistry at the Univ. of Pennsylvania) for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.
Web pages for further information:
    The Nobel Prize winners related to the university (only in Japanese at present).
    The Institute of Material Science.
    The Nobel Foundation.
Dr. SHIRAKAWA will also be awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese Government in November.