Osamu Shimomura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Osamu Shimomura

Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1928

Place of Birth: Fukuchiyama, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 19-Oct-2018

Profession: professor, chemist, biochemist

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Osamu Shimomura (?? ?, Shimomura Osamu, August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) 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.