Tanaka Koichi, born on August 3, 1959 in Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, KyodoShimadzu Production InstituteR&D engineer, director of Life Science Business Center and Life Science Research Institute of Analytical Measurement Division.
Kenichi Tanaka graduated from Tohoku University in 1983, and then worked in Shimadzu Production Institute in Beijing. He successively served as a research and development engineer, director of Life Science Business Center and Life Science Research Institute of Analytical Measurement Division;Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002[1]。
Tanaka Kenichi developed a soft desorption ionization method for mass spectrometry analysis of biomacromolecules[5]。
Kenichi Tanaka was born in Toyama, the capital of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, on August 3, 1959.
In 1983, he graduated from the Department of Engineering, Northeastern University of Japan, majoring in electrical engineering, and obtained a bachelor's degree.Later, he joined the Beijing Metropolis Shimadzu Production Institute and successively served as a research and development engineer, director of the Life Science Business Center and Life Science Research Institute of the Analytical Measurement Division.
In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry[3]。The day when Tanaka won the prize, there was chaos in the Japanese Ministry of Education.Because the name Tanaka Kenichi could not be found in their list of materials from the Japanese life science academic community.In the end, they got Tanaka Kenichi's resume through Internet news.After winning the Nobel Prize, the boss of Shimadzu Production Institute, the company where he worked, sent him a reward of millions of yen when he came back from a business trip, and announced that he would be promoted from the director position to the director level[4]。
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Tanaka Kenichi has developed simple and accurate mass spectrometry analysis methods for macromolecules such as proteins. Because of their high molecular weight, it is very difficult to analyze them by conventional methods[6]。
Tanaka Kenichi's mother died of illness one month after giving birth to him, and she adopted him to her uncles and aunts when she was young.He was shocked when he was told of this fact when he was in college.
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The patent invention applied by Tanaka Kenichi was awarded only 11000 yen by the company at that time.When the patent application is accepted, 5000 yen will be awarded, and when it is approved, 6000 yuan will be awarded.11000 yen was equivalent to about 700 yuan in 2002.Tanaka has hardly published any papers.Only a few articles were published in unimportant conferences and magazines.He has little contact with Japanese academia.
