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Press Releases
2000/10/10
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry Given to Dr. Shirakawa,
Professor Emeritus of University of Tsukuba |
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, on October 10 2000,
that this year's Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry is Dr. Hideki Shirakawa
(age 64) of Prof. Emer. of University of Tsukuba.
Joint receipients were Prof. Alan Heeger at University of California,
Santa Barbara, U.S.A., and Prof. Alan MacDiarmid at University of
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. They are rewarded "for the discovery and development
of electrically conductive polymers".
Dr. Shirakawa et al. first succeeded in the world to give electroconductivity
to a plastic which usually does not transmit electricity, by chemically
processing the film of the plastic called polyacetylene in 1970s.
Mr. Oshima, Minister of Education and Minister of STA, expressed on
October 10 his opinion applauding the remarkable achievements of Dr.
Shirakawa. Dr. Shirakawa was the 9th Japanese Nobel Prize laureate
following Mr. Kenzaburo Oe who won in literature in 1994, and the
2nd in chemistry following Mr. Ken-ichi Fukui (deceased) in 1981.
(For further information, please contact the Research Division, Science
and Technology Policy Bureau, STA; phone: 03-3581-0707)
(Source:STA TODAY November 2000) |
Nobel Prize Winner, Emeritus Professor Hideki Shirakawa of
the Tsukuba University |
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