University of Tsukuba

Imtinite of Agriculture and Forest Engineering, University of Tsukuba, J-J Tennodaiitchome. Tsukuba-si, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan... 

Murata, M., Master thesis. Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 1993. 

Department of Chemistry, The University of Tsukuba, Sakura-mura, Niihari-gun, Ibaraki 305, Japan... 

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba,... 

University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan email leevya chem.tsukuba.ac.jp... 

Department of Chemistry, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan. Fax +81 29 851 4796 e-mail wataru.ando aist.go.jp Institute de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo-Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 748 Bl., I2S CEP 05508-900, S3o Paulo—SP, Brazil. Fax +55 113 815 5579 e-mail wjbaader iq.usp.br... 

Institut fur Organische Chemie der Technischen Universitat Berlin, StraBe des 17 Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan... 

G. E. Stedman (21), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand L. L. Surat (497), Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pervomaiskaya Str. 91, Ekaterinburg 620218, Russia Shugo Suzuki (535), Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573,Japan... 

After a chance meeting in Tokyo in 1976 with Alan MacDiarmid, then working in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Shirakawa left TIT for a three-year residency with MacDiarmid at Pennsylvania. In 1979, he returned to Japan, where he assumed the post of associate professor in the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Tsukuba. Three years later he was promoted to full professor, a post he held until his retirement in March 2000. Only seven months later, he was chosen one of the three winners (along with MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger of the University of California at Santa Barbara) of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of conductive polymers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Shirakawa has been honored with the 1983 award of the Society of Polymer Science of Japan and the Japanese government s Order of Culture in 2000. 

Dr. Toshio Shimizu was born in 1959 in Japan and obtained his PhD at Tokyo Metropolitan University at the Graduate School of Science. After his PhD studies he moved to the University of Tsukuba where he became research associate in 1988 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1990. He then moved back to the Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and full professor in 2006. 

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