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Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu, August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018 [1]) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Osamu Shimomura, Japanese-born chemist who was a corecipient, with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Shimomura was cited for his identification of the green fluorescent protein, which is used as a tool to make visible the actions of certain cells.
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Nov 13, 2018 · Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018) Chemist who illuminated bioluminescence. By. Georgina Ferry. Credit: Marine Biological Laboratory/Tom Kleindinst. Growing up during one of the darkest times in...
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Oct 24, 2018 · Osamu Shimomura, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery of a glowing jellyfish protein that is now ubiquitous in biomedical research, died on Friday in Nagasaki,...
Oct 19, 2018 · Osamu Shimomura. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008. Born: 27 August 1928, Kyoto, Japan. Died: 19 October 2018, Nagasaki, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA; Boston University Medical School, Massachusetts, MA, USA.
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Oct 23, 2018 · While working at Friday Harbor Laboratories, a field station run by the University of Washington, Osamu Shimomura discovered a jellyfish protein that allows scientists to trace the movement of...
Oct 23, 2018 · October 23, 2018. Rich Barlow. Osamu Shimomura never forgot the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. He was a teenager working at a factory there when the brighter-than-the-sun flash flooded through the windows. “We were blinded for about 30 seconds,” he recalled six decades after the 1945 strike.
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