Tanaka dismisses complaints, defends his Nobel prize+

Tanaka dismisses complaints, defends his Nobel prize+

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speak at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Stockholm on Dec. 9 prior to receiving their awards Dec. 10. Tanaka dismissed complaints from European researchers who said other researchers better deserve the prize, noting he and his team were the first to develop soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.

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