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Koichi Tanaka

Chemistry

Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John B. Fenn and Kurt Wuthrich for developing a method for mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules, work he carried out as an engineer rather than an academic chemist.

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Chemistry 1
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Earth Science 1
Field (category)
Engineering 1
Birth Year
1959 1
Nationality
Japan 1
Birthplace
Toyama, Japan 1
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Nobel 2
Gender
Male 2
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1. Koichi Tanaka (Wikidata)
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Japan
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  • P19 (place of birth): Toyama, Japan
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2. NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize laureate record: Koichi Tanaka
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  • Nobel API laureate record, gender
    "fileName": "tanaka", "gender": "male"
  • Nobel API laureate record, prize
    "awardYear": "2002", "category": { "en": "Chemistry",
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Koichi Tanaka (Wikipedia)
  • Member Of: Nobel Prize, Infobox: awards
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) Order of Culture (2002) Person of Cultural Merit (2002) IEEE Milestone (2024)
  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead, sentence 1
    Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一, Tanaka Kōichi; born August 3, 1959) 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 (the latter for work in NMR spectroscopy).
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