2000-10-10 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000, H. Shirakawa, University of Tsukuba

http://www.nobel.se/announcement/2000/chemen.html

This big news came to NHK-TV around 10:15 pm.
Reports about Dr. Hideki Shirakawa's Nobel Prize showed that this is a surprise news for mass-media people, who didn't prepare well for his nomination.

But my friend said " I know Dr. Shirakawa very well and close friend. Dr. Alan. Heeger and Dr. Alan MacDiarmid is also good friend of me. We are really expecting the Nobel Prize for three persons".

I think good people know each other very well.