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Martin Chalfie, University Professor and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his introduction of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a biological marker.
Martin Chalfie. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008. Born: 15 January 1947, Chicago, IL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”. Prize share: 1/3.
Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. [3] . He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". [4] .
Osamu Shimomura painstakingly isolated GFP from hundreds of thousands of jellyfish, characterized the chromophore and elucidated the mechanism of Aequorean bioluminescence. Martin Chalfie expressed the protein in E. coli and C. elegans, and Roger Tsien developed a palette of fluorescent proteins that could be used in a myriad of applications.
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- 2009
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Jun 18, 2011 · Chalfie describes the events, both serendipitous and insightful, that led to the discovery of GFP and its development as a marker of gene expression. He also presents a strong argument for the...
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Jun 23, 2009 · It is a written version of the Nobel Lecture by Martin Chalfie, “GFP: Lighting Up Life.” The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Chalfie for demonstrating “the value of GFP as a luminous genetic tag for various biological phenomena.”
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