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Nobel Laureate Hideki Shirakawa Dies at 90

The Japanese chemist who helped turn a lab error into a Nobel Prize for electricity-conducting plastics has died at the age of 90.

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  1. Hideki Shirakawa, Who Helped Turn a Lab Error Into a Nobel, Dies at 90 The New York Times ·

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