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Koichi Tanaka

1959 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Koichi Tanaka is the 399th most popular chemist (down from 375th in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Japan (down from 769th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Koichi Tanaka ranks 399 out of 602. Before him are Fausto Elhuyar, Maclyn McCarty, Adolph Frank, Ferdinand Reich, Eric Betzig, and Jennifer Doudna. After him are Otto Ambros, Leo Sternbach, Julia Lermontova, Roy J. Plunkett, David Warren, and Rashad Khalifa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Koichi Tanaka ranks 149. Before him are Nicole Brown Simpson, Pietro Vierchowod, Baron Waqa, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Henry Czerny, and Jim Yong Kim. After him are Martin Brundle, Aidan Quinn, Massimo Bonini, R. A. Salvatore, John C. McGinley, and Satoshi Yamaguchi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 895 out of 6,245. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Saburō Kurusu (1886), Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), Kuniya Daini (1944), and Saigyō (1118). After him are Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Meiko Kaji (1947), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), George Ohsawa (1893), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Peter Doi (1892).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 10. Before him are Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), and Kaoru Ishikawa (1915). After him are Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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