Nobel-Winning Japanese Scientist Hideki Shirakawa Dies at 90
Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--University of Tsukuba professor emeritus Hideki Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, died of metastatic liver tumor and cancer of unknown primary origin at a hospital in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 24. He was 90. A Tokyo native, Shirakawa graduated from the science faculty at the To...