Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa in 2001
Born	(1936-08-20) August 20, 1936 (age 88) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo)
Known for	Conductive polymers
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Person of Cultural Merit (2000) Order of Culture (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania University of Tsukuba

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.