Roger Yonchien Tsien:
Roger Yonchien Tsien is a Chinese American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 1, 1952 in New York, New York.
Claim to Fame:
Tsien is an Chinese American biochemist who shares the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie for their discovery of the green fluorescent protein. The green fluorescent protein is a protein that glows bright green in the presence of blue light and found in Aequorea victoria jellyfish.
