Chemist no. 179 of 350 · Analytical
Koichi Tanaka
1959-JapanNobel Chemistry 2002
Soft laser desorption for protein mass spectrometry
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Koichi Tanaka and Soft Laser Desorption: How Proteins Learned to Fly
How Koichi Tanaka's soft laser desorption let mass spectrometers weigh intact proteins, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and shaped MALDI-TOF.
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Koichi Tanaka: The Engineer Who Made Proteins Fly and Won a Nobel Prize
Life of Koichi Tanaka, the Shimadzu engineer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for soft laser desorption and protein mass spectrometry.
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