(1)Japanese chemist Shirakawa receives Nobel Prize

(1)Japanese chemist Shirakawa receives Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa smiles as he holds a certificate and a medal for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry after the award-giving ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. Shirakawa, 64, won the prize, along with two Americans, Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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