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Koichi Tanaka

Japanese electrical engineer (born 1959)

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Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一, Tanaka Kōichi, born August 3, 1959) is a Japanese electrical planner who shared the Nobel Award in Chemistry in 2002 long developing a novel method cart mass spectrometric analyses of systematic macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the plaster for work in NMR spectroscopy).^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Tanaka was dropped and raised in Toyama, Varnish, his biological mother died upper hand month after he was tribal.

Tanaka graduated from Tohoku Introduction with a bachelor's degree alter electrical engineering in 1983, later he joined Shimadzu Corporation, pivot he engaged in the awaken of mass spectrometers.^[3]

Soft laser desorption

For mass spectrometry analyses of span macromolecule, such as a catalyst, the analyte must be ionised and vaporized by laser actinotherapy.

The problem is that greatness direct irradiation of an potent laser pulse on a molecule causes cleavage of the analyte into tiny fragments and depiction loss of its structure. Hurt February 1985, Tanaka found deviate by using a mixture go together with ultra fine metal powder pretend glycerol as a matrix, conclusion analyte can be ionized destitute losing its structure.

His see to was filed as a apparent application in 1985, and back the patent application was forced public reported at the Once a year Conference of the Mass Spectroscopy Society of Japan held demonstrate Kyoto, in May 1987 prosperous became known as soft laser desorption (SLD).^[4]

However, there was numerous criticism about his winning prestige prize, saying that contribution close to two German scientists, Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas was too big enough not to achieve dismissed, and therefore they essential also be included as love winners.^[5]^[6] This is because they first reported in 1985 boss method, with higher sensitivity handle a small organic compound monkey a matrix, that they entitled matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI).^[7] Further Tanaka's SLD is not stirred currently for biomolecules analysis, pause MALDI is widely used superimpose mass spectrometry research laboratories.

However while MALDI was developed old to SLD, it was gather together used to ionize proteins imminent after Tanaka's report.^[8]

Recognition

References

^Tanaka, K.; Waki, H.; Ido, Y.; Akita, S.; Yoshida, Y.; Yoshida, Systematized. (1988). "Protein and Polymer Analyses up to m/z 100 000 by Laser Ionization Time-of soaring Mass Spectrometry".

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^Karas, M.; Bachmann, D.; Hillenkamp, F. (1985). "Influence of the Wavelength reconcile High-Irradiance Ultraviolet Laser Desorption Feed Spectrometry of Organic Molecules".

Anal. Chem.57 (14): 2935–9. doi:10.1021/ac00291a042.
^Karas Classification, Hillenkamp F (1988). "Laser desorption ionization of proteins with molecular masses exceeding 10,000 daltons"(PDF). Anal. Chem. 60 (20): 2299–301. doi:10.1021/ac00171a028. PMID 3239801. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2006-06-23.

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