The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
Awarded on: 2008-10-08
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Martin Chalfie
Born: 1947-01-15 in Chicago, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American scientist
Biography
Martin Lee Chalfie is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He holds a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard University.