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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 131,148 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Hideki Shirakawa is the 230th most popular chemist (up from 268th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Japan (up from 349th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 230 out of 602. Before him are William Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown, Jacques Dubochet, Hartmut Michel, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and S. P. L. Sørensen. After him are Leo Baekeland, Luis Federico Leloir, Charles J. Pedersen, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Roger D. Kornberg, and Antoine Jérôme Balard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 69. Before him are Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Kris Kristofferson, Alan J. Heeger, François Pinault, Gianni Vattimo, and Don Cherry. After him are Engelbert Humperdinck, Yury Luzhkov, Joe D'Amato, Iolanda Balaș, Bruce Dern, and Abdul Qadeer Khan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 271 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), Emperor Toba (1103), Emperor Monmu (683), Mōri Motonari (1497), and Emperor Go-Fushimi (1288). After him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Empress Shōken (1849), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Emperor Seinei (444), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Inejiro Asanuma (1898).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Hideki Shirakawa ranks 5. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kenichi Fukui (1918), and Satoshi Ōmura (1935). After him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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