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Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize

Posted by timothy on from the also-will-change-dinner-forever dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry award for 2008: jointly given to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien 'for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP' — a remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, in 1962."

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  1. Re:Green Eggs and Ham by ceoyoyo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Nobel was creating the prizes biology had more in common with being a librarian than it did with what we think of as biology today.

  2. Poor link choice? by Prune · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why was "beautiful jellyfish" selected as the portion of the text hyperlinking to the article? I clicked on it expecting to see a beautiful jellyfish, and instead saw three humans that are not quite beautiful...

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