Topic: Osamu Shimomura

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 ...
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 ...
Share | U.S. 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 ignoring a telephone ringing he thought came from next door.. "Then I realised ...

A Nobel for Illuminating Biology

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for discovering and developing a glowing jellyfish protein that has revolutionized biology and medicine. The prize, announced this morning, recognizes Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole ...
Early in the summer of 1961, a young Japanese organic chemist named Osamu Shimomura wedged himself into a station wagon packed with lab equipment and three other passengers and drove across the United States looking for the secret of what makes certain ...
Americans Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie, who shared the Nobel chemistry prize with Osamu Shimomura of Japan, followed up on Shimomura's trailblazing work with fluorescent protein from a jellyfish, now a key research tool.Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has revolutionized research ...