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Koichi Tanaka
(3 Aug 1959 - )
Japanese electrical engineer and chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for for “development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.”
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Science Quotes by Koichi Tanaka (1 quote)
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. The occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
— Koichi Tanaka
In Tore Frängsmyr (ed.), Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2002 (2003), 193.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
