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  "id": 5310327,
  "title": "Nobel-Winning Japanese Scientist Hideki Shirakawa Dies at 90",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobel-winning-japanese-scientist-hideki-shirakawa-dies-at-90",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-03T10:37:26.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026090300838/"
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  "summary": "Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--University of Tsukuba professor emeritus Hideki Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, died of metastatic liver tumor and cancer of unknown primary origin at a hospital in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 24. He was 90. A Tokyo native, Shirakawa graduated from the science faculty at the To...",
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        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/japanese-scientist-shirakawa-co-winner-of-2000-nobel-prize-in-5325329",
        "published": "2026-09-03T11:50:34.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90",
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        "published": "2026-09-03T11:53:02.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "Nobel-winning Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobel-winning-japanese-scientist-hideki-shirakawa-dies-at-90-5332383",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:22:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "NDTV",
        "title": "Japanese Scientist, Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner Hideki Shirakawa Dies At 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/japanese-scientist-nobel-chemistry-prize-winner-hideki-shirakawa-dies",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:30:13.000Z"
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