In this undated publicity photo released by Tsien Lab and the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Roger Tsien's lab created this wreath made from tubes of various fluorescent proteins that were displayed in a box with UV light shining on them. Japanese researcher Osamu Shimomura and Americans Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie were jointly awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry October 8, 2008. They won "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". [Agencies] |
