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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)

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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!

There you go folks. If you want a Nobel, discover something that makes people go 'ooOOOoo pwetty!'. If it has utility, even better.

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