What is Koichi Tanaka?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Koichi Tanaka | image = Koichi Tanaka 2003.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = ''Koizumi Cabinet E-mail Magazine'', No.81, February 6, 2003. | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|8|3|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Toyama, Toyama|Toyama, Japan]] | nationality = Japanese | field = [[Electrical Engineering]], [[chemistry]] | work_institutions = [[Shimadzu Corp.|Shimadzu Corporation]] | alma_mater = [[Tohoku University]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Soft laser desorption]] | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] {{small|(2002)}}<br>[[Order of Culture]] {{small|(2002)}}<br>[[Person of Cultural Merit]] {{small|(2002)}} }} {{nobelprize|Chemistry}}{{nihongo|'''Koichi Tanaka'''|田中 耕一|Tanaka Kōichi|born August 3, 1959}} is a [[Japan]]ese [[electrical engineer]]. He shared the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2002 for creating a method for [[Mass spectrometry|mass spectrometric]] analyses of biological [[macromolecules]] with [[John Bennett Fenn]] and [[Kurt Wüthrich]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Tanaka, K. |author2=Waki, H. |author3=Ido, Y. |author4=Akita, S. |author5=Yoshida, Y. |author6=Yoshida, T. |title=Protein and Polymer Analyses up to m/z 100 000 by Laser Ionization Time-of flight Mass Spectrometry |journal=[[Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry|Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom]] |volume=2 |issue=20 |pages=151–3 |year=1988|doi=10.1002/rcm.1290020802|bibcode=1988RCMS....2..151T }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jce.divched.org/JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/document.php?chemid=62 |title=Biographical Snapshots of Famous Women and Minority Chemists: Snapshot |access-date=2008-08-18 |archive-date=2008-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605151723/http://www.jce.divched.org/JCEWWW/features/echemists/document.php?chemid=62 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanaka, Koichi}} [[Category:1959 bi