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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Osamu Shimomura Martin Chalfie Roger Y. Tsien
Photo: J. Henriksson/SCANPIX Photo: J. Henriksson/SCANPIX Photo: UCSD
Osamu Shimomura Martin Chalfie Roger Y. Tsien
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
Woods Hole, MA, USA; Boston University Medical School
Massachusetts, MA, USA
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
University of California
San Diego, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1928
(in Kyoto, Japan)
b. 1947 b. 1952
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