Nobel laureate Shirakawa heads for Stockholm to receive prize

Nobel laureate Shirakawa heads for Stockholm to receive prize

NARITA, Japan - Hideki Shirakawa, one of this year's three winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, leaves Narita airport Dec. 4 for Stockholm. Shirakawa, a 64-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, will be awarded the prize at a ceremony on Dec. 10. together with physicist Alan Heeger and chemist Alan MacDiarmid, both of the United States, for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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