Koichi Tanaka
Koizumi Cabinet E-mail Magazine, No.81, February 6, 2003. | |
| Born | 3 August 1959 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tohoku University |
| Known for | Soft laser desorption |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) Order of Culture (2002) Person of Cultural Merit (2002) IEEE Milestone (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering, chemistry |
| Institutions | Shimadzu Corporation |
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).