Nobuo Tanaka

Nobuo Tanaka was educated at Kyoto University in Japan. After graduation, he spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington in Seattle, and finally Northeastern University in Boston. He returned to Japan in 1979 and worked his way up to full professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology where he was active for 30 years until his retirement in 2009. Since then, he has been a technical advisor at GL Sciences. Tanaka’s most important contribution was the development and reduction to practice of monolithic silica columns for HPLC. Now, he contributes to the development of high-speed, highefficiency monolithic silica columns and the operation methods that can enhance the performance of HPLC.