Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry : Year 2008

All Three Share the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008

Osamu Shimomura (born August 27, 1928) is a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists.


Martin Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences.He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two other scientists for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

Roger Yonchien Tsien ( born February 1, 1952) is an American biochemist and a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two other chemists.

Website details: For more information of these Nobel Laureates, visit(Autobiograpy,Award Speech,Videos etc): http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/


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