The son of an army captain, Osamu Shimomura was born in Fukuchiyama, in Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 1928. He spent part of his childhood in the Chinese region of Manchuria, ...

Osamu Shimomura, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory, died Oct. 19 at the age of 90. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on isolating green ...

Osamu Shimomura, a senior scientist emeritus and Corporation member at the Marine Biological Laboratory, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of green fluorescent ...

Former Princeton University researcher Osamu Shimomura was named a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for his discovery of a green fluorescent protein in jellyfish that is widely ...

Osamu Shimomura, who today was named a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will receive the award for a discovery he made while working at Princeton. Shimomura, who was a researcher in the ...

Osamu Shimomura, who has died aged 90, survived the bombing of Nagasaki to share the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry, with two American scientists, for the discovery and development of a jellyfish ...

Former Princeton University researcher Osamu Shimomura, 80, was honored for his discovery of the protein, and Livingston High School graduate Roger Y. Tsien, 56, was cited for developing similar ...

As is the case with most great scientific discoveries, it all started with a bit of curiosity. In the 1960s, Osamu Shimomura wondered why crystal jellyfish gave off green pinpricks of light. Now ...

Osamu Shimomura, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2008 for his discovery of a glowing jellyfish protein that is now ubiquitous in biomedical research, died on Friday in Nagasaki, Japan.

Osamu Shimomura won the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a jellyfish protein that has helped scientists track the movements of proteins and cells, and the spread of cancer across the ...