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Hideki Shirakawa

1936 - Today

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Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, Shirakawa Hideki, born August 20, 1936) is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideki Shirakawa has received more than 122,221 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Hideki Shirakawa is the 268th most popular chemist (up from 273rd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Japan (up from 405th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 57.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 268 out of 509. Before him are Emil Abderhalden, Alexander Butlerov, Martin Rodbell, Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Vladimir Markovnikov. After him are Alan MacDiarmid, Richard Smalley, Kenichi Fukui, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Edmond H. Fischer, and Fraser Stoddart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 93. Before him are Kenneth G. Wilson, Joe D'Amato, Alan Alda, Raymond Poulidor, Nino Castelnuovo, and Wilfried Martens. After him are Wolf Biermann, Solomon Burke, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Christine Nöstlinger, Christiane Martel, and Didier Ratsiraka.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 351 out of 6,048. Before him are Ikkyū (1394), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Tanaka Giichi (1864), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), and Emperor Toba (1103). After him are Emperor Go-Fushimi (1288), Emperor Seiwa (850), Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Oichi (1547), Akira Nozawa (1914), and Empress Masako (1963).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 6. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), and Kikunae Ikeda (1864). After him are Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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