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Koichi Tanaka Receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 [K. Tanaka et al., Shimadzu Corp., Kyoto, Japan, "Proceedings of the 2nd Japan-China Joint Symposium on Mass Spectrometry",185, 1987]  On October 9th, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences has decided to award the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry to
43-year-old Koichi Tanaka, a Life Science Laboratory assistant
manager in the Life Science Business Unit of the Analytical &
Measuring Instruments Division of Shimadzu Corporation, professor
John B. Fenn (aged 85) of Virginia Commonwealth University and
professor Kurt Wuthrich (aged 64) of Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, a visiting professor at the Scripps Research Institute
in USA.Tanaka and Fenn are to receive half of the prize for their development of soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules to identify and reveal the structures of such molecules. Tanaka is the 12th Japanese citizen to receive a Nobel Prize. At 9:00pm on October 9th, TV viewers witnessed the total astonishment of Koichi Tanaka as he related the news of receiving the Nobel Prize at a press conference held at the head office of Shimadzu Corporation in Kyoto. Away on overseas business, Shimadzu president Hidetoshi Yajima rejoiced by saying that he was both surprised and thrilled upon hearing the good news, and that the prize is a tribute to Shimadzu's technology; moreover, he cannot wait to congratulate Koichi Tanaka. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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