Professor Koichi TANAKA who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 “for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules” gave a lecture on November 7 in front of an audience including students and professors. The event brought together about 360 people. Professor TANAKA graduated from the School of Engineering of Tohoku University in 1983 with a bachelor degree in electrical engineering and was working at Shimadzu Corporation at the time of his discovery (1985) that earned him the Nobel Prize.