Osamu Shimomura was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008, announced October 8, 2008. Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien, “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”. Osamu Shimomura: born 1928, Kyoto, Japan. Martin Chalfie: born 1947, Chicago, IL, USA. Roger Y. Tsien: born 1952, New York, NY, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).