# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideki-shirakawa
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:54.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideki-shirakawa"
name: "Hideki Shirakawa"
slug: "hideki-shirakawa"
description: "Hideki Shirakawa  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. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger."
tagline: "Japanese scientist (1936–)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1936-08-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump