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Koichi Tanaka

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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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Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Earth Science 1
Field (category)
Engineering 1
Birth Year
1959 1
Nationality
Japan 1
Birthplace
Toyama, Japan 1
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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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Koichi Tanaka (Wikipedia)
Works In: Chemistry, Lead, sentence 1
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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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