Osamu Shimomura, a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has died, Nagasaki University announced on Sunday. He was 90 years old.
The professor emeritus of Boston University received the prize for discovering the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in jellyfish that glows under ultraviolet light.
Shimomura successfully isolated GFP from luminous Aequorea victoria jellyfish in 1962 when he was a researcher at Princeton University. By using it as a marker, it enabled researchers to directly observe proteins living in cells. His discovery has contributed to dramatic developments in bioscience.
He died in Nagasaki on Friday, according to Nagasaki University.
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