Kōichi Tanaka, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier on July 9, 2026. The University is thus recognizing the career of this Shimadzu engineer, a pioneer in mass spectrometry, and the scientific ties forged with the Montpellier university-hospital clinical proteomics platform in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.