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Japanese scientist Shirakawa wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - File photo shows Hideki Shirakawa, one of three scientists who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Oct. 10 the three won the award for the discovery and development of conductive polymers. Shirakawa, an honorary professor with the University of Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, is the ninth Japanese to win a Nobel prize and the country's second person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry after Kenichi Fukui in 1981.