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Hideki Shirakawa

1936 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hideki Shirakawa is the 237th most popular chemist (down from 230th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Japan (up from 271st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 237 out of 602. Before him are James B. Conant, Stanislao Cannizzaro, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, John Frederic Daniell, John Pople, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. After him are Louis Jacques Thénard, Charles J. Pedersen, Hennig Brand, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Friedrich Sertürner, and Nicolas Leblanc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 58. Before him are Ferid Murad, Frank Caprio, Vyjayanthimala Bali, Raymond Damadian, Choummaly Sayasone, and Glenda Jackson. After him are Ghassan Kanafani, Costas Simitis, Don Cherry, Eva Hesse, Denny Hulme, and Steve Reich.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 207 out of 6,245. Before him are Kitarō (1953), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Emperor Richū (336), Shiro Azumi (null), Emperor Kaika (-208), and Kazuyoshi Miura (1967). After him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), and Taira no Kiyomori (1118).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 4. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Kenichi Fukui (1918), and Osamu Shimomura (1928). After him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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