Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry 2008: "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

Abstract

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 has been awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, by their respective scientific contributions, which have transformed a curiosity of Nature, such as the ability of a jelly fish to emit green light, into a powerful tool nowadays vastly used in biomedical and biotechnological research.