The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-09
"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
Affiliations:
- Shimadzu Corp. – Kyoto, Japan
Koichi Tanaka
Born: 1959-08-03 in Toyama City, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese electrical engineer (born 1959)
Biography
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich.