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Hideki Shirakawa, Who Helped Turn a Lab Error Into a Nobel, Dies at 90
4 September 2026 at 12:06
The Japanese chemist played a key role in the discovery of electricity-conducting plastics, largely by accident.
Hideki Shirakawa in Stockholm in 2000, when he shared the Nobel Prize. From a young age, he developed an ambition to work in the lab with plastics.
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