(2)Tanaka overjoyed at winning 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry

(2)Tanaka overjoyed at winning 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese engineer Koichi Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is surrounded by reporters in front of the head office of his employer Shimadzu Corp., a major comprehensive precision equipment maker, in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Oct. 10. (Kyodo)

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