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  "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",
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  "published": "2026-09-03T12:30:13.000Z",
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  "summary": "The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct electricity like metal and be used in applications such as electronics.",
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        "outlet": "Nippon.com News",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-09-03T10:37:26.000Z"
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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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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