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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"
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Telephone interview with Martin Chalfie following the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 8 October 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Martin Chalfie is University Professor at Columbia University, US. He received the 2008 Nobel prize in chemistry, alongside Osamu Shimomura and Roger Tsien, for the discovery and development ...
Chalfie used the gene to demonstrate the value of GFP as a luminous biological marker that could be activated by blue light to give green light. Chalfie’s interest in GFP was sparked by a 1989 seminar by Paul Brehm about bioluminescent organisms in which Brehm talked about GFP.
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.
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May 14, 2013 · When he received his A.B. from Harvard in 1969, Martin Chalfie wasn’t sure what he would do next. His worst grades had been in physics and chemistry, and a summer research project had failed, so science seemed out of reach. Today, Chalfie is a Nobel laureate.
