Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich.
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1981 · Sweden
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1969 · United States
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1983 · United States
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1973 · United Kingdom
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1973 · Canada
Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. Having amassed several credits and accolades over three decades, she emerged as a scream queen in the late 1990s for starring in horror films.
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1988 · Sweden
Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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