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(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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(2)Japanese chemist Shirakawa awarded Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa (L), joint winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shakes hands with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (R) in Stockholm on Dec. 10. King Gustaf presented the award to Shirakawa, 64, along with two Americans, Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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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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Nobel laureate Shirakawa delivers lecture in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa makes a commemorative speech in Stockholm on Dec. 8. Shirakawa, 64, a professor emeritus at Tsukuba University, has been named recipient of the Nobel prize together with Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for their work on conductive polymers -- plastics able to conduct electricity.

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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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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.

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Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production

STORY: Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production DATELINE: May 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: Havana CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE/SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the production of bio-fertilizers and stimulants 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): ALEJANDRO FALCON, Head of Group of Bio-Active Products at National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Cuba STORYLINE: Cuba is working on the production of bio-fertilizers and bio-stimulants in search of a model of sustainable agriculture as the country faces economic, commercial and financial restrictions caused by the U.S. sanctions. At the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Cuban province of Mayabeque, some 30 kilometers from the capital Havana, chemical laboratories are manufacturing PECTIMORF and QUITOMAX, bio-stimulants of natural origin constituted of a mix of pectic oligosaccharides that are biologically active in plants and utilize chitosan polymers. According to the head of the Group of Bio-Active Products at

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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.

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(2)Japanese chemist Shirakawa awarded Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa (L), joint winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shakes hands with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (R) in Stockholm on Dec. 10. King Gustaf presented the award to Shirakawa, 64, along with two Americans, Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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(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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Polymer EV unveiled at Osaka University

Photo shows a newly developed electric car made with polymers unveiled at Osaka University on Dec. 11, 2018 in Osaka. The three-seater 4.28-meter-long vehicle uses a newly developed polymer material for its body to lighten its weight to 850 kilograms while maintaining its strength. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Polymer EV unveiled at Osaka University

Photo shows a newly developed electric car made with polymers unveiled at Osaka University in Osaka on Dec. 11, 2018. The three-seater 4.28-meter-long vehicle uses a newly developed polymer material for its body to lighten its weight to 850 kilograms while maintaining its strength. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo