Nobel laureate Shirakawa meets press before award ceremony

Nobel laureate Shirakawa meets press before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize laureate Hideki Shirakawa meets the press at a hotel in Stockholm on Dec. 9 before the Dec. 10 award ceremony. Shirakawa, a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with two American professors -- Alan MacDiarmid from the University of Pennsylvania and Alan Heeger from the University of California. The trio won the prize for their discovery and subsequent development of conductive polymers.

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