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Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 – WTOP News

2+ hour, 41+ min 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…...