Osamu Shimomura, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering and isolating green fluorescent protein, died on October 19 in Nagasaki, Japan. He was 90 years old. The Japan Times ...

These chapters also chronicle the challenges faced by early researchers, such as Edmund Harvey who first popularized the scientific study of living light, and Osamu Shimomura who unraveled how the ...

Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP in the jellyfish __Aequorea victoria__ in 1962 while working at Princeton University, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University first expressed the protein in __E. coli__ ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected Osamu Shimomura (Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and Boston University Medical School), Martin Chalfie (Columbia University ...

The topics covered went from the well-known to the obscure, from a talk about periodic table legend Mendeleev, to fluorescent protein researcher Osamu Shimomura, and from the chemistry of baking to a ...