Happy birthday to the co-discoverer of conductive polymers - Hideki Shirakawa!
Shirakawa shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with physicist Alan Jay Heeger and chemist Alan Graham MacDiarmid for discovering and developing conductive polymers.
His interest in science and chemistry commenced at an early age:
"For the ten years from the third grade of elementary school to the end of high school, I lived in the small city of Takayama, a town of less than sixty thousand, located in the middle of Honshu, Japan. In this small town, rich in natural beauty, I spent my days enthusiastically collecting insects and plants, and making radios. My affinity for science was awakened..."
Read his full biography: https://bit.ly/2XK7E7F
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