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Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)

For the Japanese economist, see Osamu Shimomura (economist).

The native form of this personal name is Shimomura Osamu. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu, August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018^[1]) was a Japaneseorganic 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.^[2]

Biography

Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Ja