(2)Koichi Tanaka wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

(2)Koichi Tanaka wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

KYOTO, Japan - An employee of Shimadzu Corp., a major comprehensive precision equipment maker based in Kyoto, responds to queries on Oct. 9 after Koichi Tanaka, an engineer at the company, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two others for their contributions to ''the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules.''

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