Nobel Prize

The discoveries awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are a shining example of how fundamental research in one area of science can sometimes lead to highly beneficial applications in another. In this case, finding the key to how a marine organism produces light unexpectedly ended-up providing researchers with a powerful array of tools with…

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English 8 October 2008 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 and Roger Y. Tsien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego,…

  The Nobel Laureate , The GFP Site Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, USA , Tsien Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, USA   Movie , Nature   Scientific review articles Shimomura, O. (2005) The discovery of aequorin and green fluorescent protein. Journal of Microscopy 217 3-15 Shaner, N.C. et al. (2008) Improving the photostability of…

Swedish 8 oktober 2008 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2008 gemensamt till Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA och Boston University Medical School MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA och Roger Y. Tsien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA,…

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is great honor for Toshihide Maskawa and me to accept the Nobel Prize in Physics, and we wish to express our sincerest gratitude to the Royal Academy of Science and the Nobel Foundation. It is a pity that Prof. Yoichiro Nambu was not…