Hideki Shirakawa made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Hideki Shirakawa as Japanese scientist (1936–).
Hideki Shirakawa was born at Tokyo in 1936. His recorded nationality is Japan. He was educated at Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as chemist, engineer and professor.
His name is attached above all to discovery of conductive polymers. Science advances when somebody insists on measuring what everyone else assumed.
His recorded fields of work are chemistry.
Recognition followed: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000).
Working from Japan shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2000
- Educated at Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania
- Worked as chemist, engineer and professor
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