Interview with Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien(50 minutes)

Interview with the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. The Laureates discuss how they entered science, the green fluorescent protein's journey of discovery from jellyfish to worms (8:17), the motivations behind creating a paintbox of fluorescent proteins (23:32), and how to attract students to study other glowing molecules that exist in Nature (35:10). Credits: Ladda Productions AB (camera)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008