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Hideki Shirakawa, who helped turn a lab error into a Nobel, dies at 90
1+ week, 2+ day ago (809+ words) Hideki Shirakawa, a Japanese chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in 2000 for the discovery of plastics that can conduct electricity, a breakthrough that had commercial applications including making new types of semiconductors and inexpensive solar panels, died Aug. 24 in Yokohama,…...
Ada Yonath, chemistry Nobel winner who mapped the ribosome, dies at 87
1+ week, 3+ day ago (199+ words) Her career at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel spanned more than five decades, starting when she arrived there in 1964 to pursue a doctorate in x-ray crystallography. After receiving that PhD four years later, she completed her postdoctoral research…...
Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 – WTOP News
1+ week, 3+ day ago (209+ words) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic…...
Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90
1+ week, 3+ day ago (29+ words) Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American sc......