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Marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died at age 90, the University of Nagasaki announced on Sunday.
Shimomura, a university graduate and professor emeritus of Boston University, died Friday of natural causes in the city of Nagasaki. He won the Nobel Prize with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien of the United States.
They have been recognized for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein, which has helped researchers find ways to monitor previously invisible processes, such as the development of nerve cells in the brain or the spread of cancer cells.
Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, in 1928, Shimomura spent her childhood in Manchuria, northeastern China, while she was under Japanese occupation in Osaka and elsewhere before moving to Isahaya. near Nagasaki. He was a victim of the American atomic bombing of the city in 1945, when he was 16 years old.
In 1951, he graduated from the Nagasaki School of Specialized Medicine, predecessor of the pharmacy department of Nagasaki University, and obtained a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Nagoya University in 1960.
He moved to Princeton University and discovered GFP in 10,000 samples of Aequorea Victoria jellyfish on the west coast of the United States.
After being an associate professor at Nagoya University from 1963, he returned to Princeton. He then worked as a senior scientist at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from 1982 to retirement in 2001.
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