December 10, 2008

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Roger Tsien Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Roger Y. Tsien, a Chinese American biochemist at UC San Diego, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP), presented at the December 10 ceremony in Stockholm.

Sources

  1. nobelprize.org nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2008/summary/
  2. hhmi.org hhmi.org/news/roger-tsien-wins-2008-nobel-prize-chemistry

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