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Osamu Shimomura 1928 – Present
Osamu Shimomura displays the Patent of the Order of Culture. Photo by Tom Kleindinst.
Osamu Shimomura graduated from Nagasaki College of Pharmacy in 1951 and worked as a research student in Organic Chemistry at the laboratory of Professor Hirata at Nagoya University from 1955 to 1958.
He obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Nagoya University in 1960.
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He was a research biochemist at Princeton University from 1960 to 1982.
In 1961, while he was a researcher at Princeton University, he discovered GFP (the green fluorescent protein) in the jellyfish Aequorea at the same time that he discovered the animal’s bioluminescing molecule, a blue-light-emitting protein that he called Aequorin.
Dr. Shimomura was the first person to purify both GFP and bioluminescing protein Aequorin from 10,000 jellyfish that he and his wife Akemi, his research assistant throughout his career, collected at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington.
Today, GFP