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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 23
(2018) pp 273-274
Nobel Laureate Osamu Shimomura, who isolated Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) (1928–2018), Obituary-Tribute
George B. Kauffman*
Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu
Published: 23 December 2018
Abstract. Osamu Shimomura, who isolated Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, died in Nagasaki, Japan on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 90 years old. No cause was given for his demise. In 2008, while at Woods Hole and the Boston University Medical School, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery with American scientists Martin Chalfie (b. 1947), then at Columbia University in New York, New York, and Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016), then at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California, who died on a bike trail in Eugene, Oregon. He is survived by his wife, Akemi, an organic chemist and a member of the Woods Hole staff; a son Tsutomu; a daughter Sachi; and two grandchildren.
Key Words: Chemistry and History; Biography; Obituaries; Nobel Laureates; Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP); Glowing Proteins; Green-glowing Jellyfish; Aequorin; Bioluminescence; Glowing Genes; Japan; World War II; Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu)
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