The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

On 8 October 2008, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to


Osamu Shimomura,
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL),
Woods Hole, MA, USA
and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA,



Martin Chalfie,
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA





Roger Y. Tsien,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA



"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".


References:

The Nobel Price 2008. Nobel Price. Retrieved on 26 Oct,08 from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/index.html