The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
Awarded on: 2008-10-08
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Affiliations:
- University of California – San Diego, CA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
Roger Y. Tsien
Born: 1952-02-01 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1952–2016)
Biography
Roger Yonchien Tsien was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging.