Nobel Prize 2008
Happy Chemistry Nobel Prize day everyone!
The winners are:
Osamu Shimomura
Martin Chalfie
Roger Y. Tsien
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
This is just a very brief post to let you know the result as it came in - a full research highlight will follow later today!
UPDATE (1430 GMT): And Stu's piece is now live, so read it here.
Neil
Neil Withers (Associate Editor, Nature Chemistry)

Comments
And you can also read Katharine's take on it at big Nature News:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081008/full/news.2008.1159.html
It's got lots of pretty pictures and some quotes addressing the inevitable 'Yeah, but is it chemistry?' questions!
Posted by: Neil | October 8, 2008 11:50 AM
There you go folks. If you want a Nobel, discover something that makes people go 'ooOOOoo pwetty!'. If it has utility, even better.
Posted by: rpg | October 8, 2008 11:09 PM