Kenichi Tanaka 1959 was born in Japan, and 1983 received a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University. Now I am working in Shimadzu Manufacturing Co., Ltd. as a research and development engineer of the company, analyzing and measuring the director of the life science career center and the life science research institute of the headquarters. Together with john fenn, an American scientist, he invented "mass spectrometry analysis of biological macromolecules" and won the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Kenichi Tanaka's award is regarded as a legend by the public. Most Nobel Prize winners are great scholars, great writers, scientists and professors who graduated from famous universities. However, at the age of 43, Tanaka was just a clerk. He has neither a doctorate nor a master's degree. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a mistake, but he said it was the beginning of his pain.

The ability of epiphany

Kenichi Tanaka lived in a poor family since childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle. I like reading natural science magazines and newspapers and learning some scientific knowledge since I was a child. When he was a student, his class teacher gave him the evaluation that he had a strong research heart.

Although he is interested in science, he is not as good as a genius. Simply put, it is not suitable for reading. However, in the entrance examination, Kenichi Tanaka was unexpectedly admitted to the engineering department of a prestigious Northeastern University, which was an extraordinary performance. It is also possible that he has this ability in his bones.

Mistakes make Kenichi Tanaka.

After graduation, Kenichi Tanaka chose Shimadzu production company because he did not enter the ideal Sony company. During his time in the company, he remained unknown. The company asked him to develop a method for surface analysis of materials by laser, but no progress was made. For this reason, he hasn't got the chance of promotion and salary increase. Later, the senior leaders of the company asked him to develop a method to analyze biological macromolecules by laser instead of mass spectrometry. This move promoted his life in the same place.

Once when he was doing an experiment in the company, he was measuring the quality of protein's group with chemicals and accidentally poured glycerol into a measuring cup. After this mistake, Tian Chonggeng was shocked, because these reagents were expensive, and he was worried that the leaders would blame him. So he had to bite the bullet and continue to do the experiment. Unexpectedly, he found an unprecedented strange phenomenon-biological macromolecules with molecular weight exceeding 10 thousand.

He learned a new idea from this mistake, invented the "soft laser detachment method" and applied for a patent. In the end, this patent brought huge benefits to the company. Tian Geng, who is addicted to experiments, has not been promoted at all. He is such a person. I was a scum when I was at school, a scum when I grew up, and a mediocre clerk when I worked. It was originally a mistake in research, but it made him a miracle in the future.

Award winning basis

1987 In September, Kenichi Tanaka announced his discovery orally in English for the first time at a meeting held in Baozhong City, Hyogo Prefecture. The professor from Hopkins University who attended the meeting captured his discovery. It is because of the professor's attention that Kenichi Tanaka won the Nobel Prize after 15 years.

Japanese domestic scholars have also paid attention to Kenichi Tanaka. Under the strong persuasion of Takeshi Matsuo, a professor at Osaka University, Tanaka Yu 1988 published an academic paper on "Soft Laser Stripping" in a natural science magazine in Europe. This move also laid a decisive foundation for his award.

An award I don't believe in.

Not only himself but also his family don't believe that such a thing happened to Tanaka. When his foster mother saw it, she even questioned whether it was the same name as him. After Tanaka won the prize, he received a congratulatory phone call, but he said to the person on the phone, "This prank is not funny at all." But the phone call made him a little suspicious. He looked it up and found that he really won the Nobel Prize.

People in the whole Ministry of Education learned that Kenichi Tanaka had won the prize, because they looked up the list of Japanese academic circles studying life sciences, but found that there was no such person. Finally, I found Tanaka's resume on the Internet. Kenichi Tanaka doesn't have a doctorate or even a master's degree at all. At the same time, he won the prize at the age of 43, too young.

At the same time, Tanaka's company is also in a mess. Because Tanaka is unknown in the company, his position and salary are too low relative to his achievements. This is to show the society that they are wasting talents. Therefore, the company leaders held an emergency meeting. In the end, abel tamata Zhonggengyi awarded a bonus of 6,543,800 yuan and appointed him as the managing director.

Tanaka bluntly said, "This is really the beginning of pain."

In this way, all the honors poured into Tanaka, who had never won a trophy or certificate since childhood. However, a few days after winning the prize, Tanaka won several honorary awards from residents and citizens in succession. Moreover, the Japanese government also filled in his name on the highest honor and cultural medal. Even his alma mater invited him back to school, awarded him an honorary doctorate and hired him as a visiting professor.

In the face of these sudden honors, there is no doubt that Tanaka Jian, who has always been honest and silent, did not make him feel uneasy. He doesn't accept the honor given to him by the school and the company.

He even said in his speech back to his alma mater: "This is really the beginning of pain." In an interview with the media, he said that this was just an experiment of misoperation, only the result of his ignorance.

His wife called to ask him if the interview was true, and he took the phone to explain it to his wife. I apologized to the media after hanging up the phone, because all this was a joke to him, and he made such a great achievement because of one of his mistakes. At this time, he didn't know much about science. So he felt that he didn't deserve so many applause flowers, so he quickly left the scene after the award ceremony. Disappear into the sea of people.

Phoenix nirvana, brilliant return

Kenichi Tanaka, who disappeared after 20 18 and 16, reappeared in the public eye. The famous authoritative scientific journal Nature published Kenichi Tanaka and his team's research paper "High-performance plasma amyloid β-protein markers of Alzheimer's disease". In the first 30 years, it only takes a few drops of blood to catch the precursor of Alzheimer's disease. This is undoubtedly not a great discovery.

16 years later, he has lost his timidity and embarrassment when facing the camera. When it comes to his research, the whole person's eyes are shining. He said: "After 16, I can finally stand up straight, which is really good." This time, the achievements he brought to himself were no longer due to mistakes, but real science, the science he knew.

Today, Kenichi Tanaka has white hair. Although his body is not as strong as before, his love for life science has never diminished. It is still active in the front line of scientific research. Some people commented that Kenichi Tanaka's body concentrated Japanese craftsmanship and craftsman temperament.

The enlightenment he brought us is that contingency must contain inevitability. In addition to luck and persistence, success sometimes requires enduring loneliness. He is using his own practice to prove his persistence and love for science to the whole world. He wants to prove to the world that all his success comes from his real science.