Nobel Laureate Osamu Shimomura, who isolated Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) (1928–2018), Obituary-Tribute

Osamu Shimomura, who isolated Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, died in Nagasaki, Japan on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 90 years old. No cause was given for his demise. In 2008, while at Woods Hole and the Boston University Medical School, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery with American scientists Martin Chalfie (b. 1947), then at Columbia University in New York, New York, and Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016), then at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California, who died on a bike trail in Eugene, Oregon. He is survived by his wife, Akemi, an organic chemist and a member of the Woods Hole staff; a son Tsutomu; a daughter Sachi; and two grandchildren.