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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 15, 1127 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nsmb1108-1127

Enlightening biology

The 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been jointly awarded to a neuroscientist and two biochemists. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected Osamu Shimomura (Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and Boston University Medical School), Martin Chalfie (Columbia University) and Roger Y. Tsien (University of California at Irvine) for their contributions to “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.