I woke up at ten after six, and I realised that they must have given the Prize in Chemistry, so I simply said,' Okay, who's the schnook that got Nobel Prize this time ? .

Martin Chalfie

Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University.

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