Osamu Shimomura:
Osamu Shimomura is a Japanese organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
August 27, 1928 in Kyoto, Japan
Claim to Fame:
Shimomura is a Japanese organic chemist who shares the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with with Roger Tsien 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.
