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Koichi Tanaka in front of a poster-arranged announcement at the 2nd Japan-China Joint Symposium on Mass Spectrometry held in Takarazuka, Japan in 1987 (Photo by courtesy of Dr. Cotter) |
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Meeting The "World" In '87 Koichi Tanaka first met the "world" in September 1987 at the 2nd Japan-China Joint Symposium on Mass Spectrometry held in Takarazuka, Japan. It was to this event that Dr. Robert Cotter a leading authority, even at that time, in the mass spectrometry field had been invited. He stated in his address that it was more than likely impossible to detect macromolecules using laser ionization mass spectrometry. After the address, Tanaka, who was present at the symposium on behalf of the research team to organize a poster-arranged presentation, approached Dr. Cotter and informed him of their research results showing the amazing data in which detection reached a mass number of 72,000. This data had a profound impact on Dr. Cotter, who promptly took report copies back to the USA and, in joint co-operation with Dr. Catherine Fenselau, a biological macromolecule researcher, introduced Shimadzu research results to many researchers in Europe and USA. |
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