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)
And you can also read Katharine’s take on it at big Nature News:
https://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.