2008-11-13

This is the Martin Chalfie (left), under the Osamu Shimomura (in) and the Qian Yongjian photos. XinHua News Agency issued

XinHua Stockholm on October 8 electricity Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences announced on the 8th, Japanese scientists Osamu Shimomura, the U.S. scientist Martin   Chalfei and American scientists QianYongjian as a result of the discovery and study of green fluorescent protein and make contributions and to share in this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Osamu Shimomura Under the old 80-year-old and he was born in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture, Nagoya University in 1960 obtained a doctorate of Science after the United States, one after another in the United States at Princeton University, Boston University and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory work. From 1962 he discovered a jellyfish fluorescent protein, known as bioluminescence the first person to study.

Martin, Shalfie,61 years old and he is Columbia University professor of biology, the award-winning his main contribution is to show a green fluorescent protein as a light-emitting genetic tag, this technology is widely used in medicine and physiology in areas such as . Nobel jury said the protein has become a contemporary biological research is one of the most important tools.

YianYongjian in 1952 was born in New York, now the University of California, San Diego professor of chemistry and biochemistry, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences College of Medicine, 2004 Wolf Prize for Medicine. Yongjian money is a major contribution to the use of the jellyfish to issue the green light to trace the chemicals in the laboratory for biological reaction, he is considered to be recognized as a pioneer in this area.

Source: XinHua network (October 8, 2008)