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Paul Krugman, Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, Nobel Prize Laureates 2008, at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm. Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo ( Manchuria , China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an ...
For his research into GFP, Osamu Shimomura was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, together with Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. [10] This discovery led to great advancements in the field of medicine because it allows for further understanding in treatments and medical diagnoses through research in cells and bacteria. [11]
Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. [3] He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". [4]
Roger Yonchien Tsien (Chinese: 錢永健; pronounced / tʃ ɛ n /, "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist.He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, [7] and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist ...
The Japanese Nobel Prize Laureate (2010) Akira Suzuki and Ei-ichi Negishi. Since 1949, there have been 30 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 1940), better known with his pen name J. M. G. Le Clézio, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
Born in Japan, Shimomura is the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Princeton High School. [1] At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.