Kato Hideki | Hideki Tōjō | Hideki Matsui | Hideki Yukawa | Hideki Tojo | Hideki Kamiya | Shirakawa | Masaaki Shirakawa | Hideki Okajima | Hideki Noda | Hideki Irabu | Emperor Go-Shirakawa |
In 1977, Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa reported similar high conductivity in oxidized iodine-doped polyacetylene.
The maturation of the field of conducting polymers was confirmed by the awarding of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers".