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[Awards]
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry -
Osamu Shimomura (Japanese citizen)
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA
Martin Chalfie
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
and
Roger Y. Tsien
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/index.html
- The Nobel Prize in Physics -
Yoichiro Nambu (US citizen. Born in Tokyo, Japan)
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
Makoto Kobayashi (Japanese citizen)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),Tsukuba, Japan
and
Toshihide Maskawa (Japanese citizen)
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University,Kyoto, Japan
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/index.html
Nobelprize.org [the official web site of the Nobel Foundation]
http://nobelprize.org/index.html
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