Martin Chalfie
Martin Chalfie · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for developing green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a biological marker.
1947, Chicago, Illinois, United States
United States · Columbia University
Martin Chalfie is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for developing green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a biological marker.
Chalfie, raised in a Jewish family in the Chicago area, took the gene for the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish and showed it could be switched on inside other organisms to make chosen cells glow under blue light. This turned GFP into a universal 'lantern' that lets biologists watch specific proteins and cells in living tissue, revolutionizing cell biology. For the discovery and development of GFP he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for developing green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a biological marker.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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