Topic: Martin Chalfie

Leaping Laureates

Martin Chalfie never envisioned celebrating his 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry by toting a giant paper m che frog on his shoulders across the Stockholm University campus on a cold, dark December eve. It started innocently enough, with he and his fellow ...

Martin Chalfie

1947, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), American chemist who was a corecipient, with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Chalfie received a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University in 1977.

Green fluorescent protein

Aspects of the topic green fluorescent protein are discussed in the following places at Britannica. American chemist who was a corecipient, with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Japanese-born chemist who was a corecipient, with ...

The Man Who Wasn't There

In a fluting voice, an unknown caller congratulated the sleepy Cram on winning the Nobel Prize. But a fourth man, Douglas Prasher, played what Tsien has called "a very important role" in the GFP story, making it possible for Chalfie and Tsien ...
Press Statement from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.. The 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry is shared by two NIH grantees, Martin Chalfie, Ph.D., of Columbia University and Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D., of the University of California at San ...
Alabama researcher-turned-van driver going to Sweden to watch scientists collect Nobel PrizeA scientist-turned-van driver in Alabama whose work helped two other men win this year's chemistry Nobel Prize is headed to Sweden to watch them collect the award.Douglas Prasher told ...

Protein prize

For isolating and developing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish, the 2008 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded jointly to three scientists.. See a slideshow of how GFP has been used in research. Chalfie routinely receives letters describing potential ...

Chemistry Nobel for green jellyfish protein

For isolating and developing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish, the 2008 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded jointly to three scientists.. See a slideshow of how GFP has been used in research. Chalfie routinely receives letters describing potential ...

Nobel prize laureate finds winning news on internet

US scientist Martin Chalfie went on the internet to find out he was one of three co-winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, he said, after he ignored a telephone ring early Wednesday he thought came from next door. "A couple ...
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