Hideki Shirakawa's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, Shirakawa Hideki; August 20, 1936 – August 24, 2026) was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. The birth-card coordinate for August 20 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery and development of conductive polymers

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Hideki Shirakawa's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Hideki Shirakawa. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Hideki Shirakawa in the public record

He was best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger. Hideki Shirakawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on August 20, 1936, the second son of a military doctor. He was the third of five children. Olympic marathoner champion Naoko Takahashi is his second cousin-niece. He lived in Manchukuo and Taiwan during childhood. Around third grade, he moved to Takayama, Gifu, which is the hometown of his mother. Shirakawa graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1961, and his doctorate in 1966.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Hideki Shirakawa (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Hideki Shirakawa, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Natural teaching and mentoring ability

Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, Shirakawa Hideki; August 20, 1936 – August 24, 2026) was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.

Also on the record

1. Afterward, he obtained the post of assistant in the Chemical Resources Laboratory at Tokyo Tech.
2. While employed as an assistant at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in Japan, Shirakawa developed polyacetylene, which has a metallic appearance.
3. This result interested Alan MacDiarmid when MacDiarmid visited Tokyo Tech in 1975.
4. In 1976, he was invited to work in the laboratory of Alan MacDiarmid as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Werner — 1913 Chemistry
• Edwin M. McMillan — 1951 Chemistry
• Eric S. Maskin — 2007 Economic Sciences
• Eugene O'Neill — 1936 Literature
• Frederick G. Banting — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustav Hertz — 1925 Physics
• Günter Grass — 1999 Literature
• Joshua D. Angrist — 2021 Economic Sciences
• K. Barry Sharpless — 2001 Chemistry; 2022 Chemistry
• Martin L. Perl — 1995 Physics
• Roger W. Sperry — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
• Salvatore Quasimodo — 1959 Literature
• 5 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Hideki Shirakawa's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. August 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Hideki Shirakawa's dates come from?

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