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| Born | Roger Yonchien Tsien February 1, 1952 New York City, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died | August 24, 2016 (aged 64) Eugene, Oregon, U.S.[5] | ||||||||
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| Spouse | Wendy Globe[5] | ||||||||
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| Fields | Biochemistry | ||||||||
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| Thesis | The design and use of organic chemical tools in cellular physiology (1976) | ||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Adrian[4] | ||||||||
| Doctoral students | Michael Z. Lin | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 錢永健 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 钱永健 | ||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||
Roger Yonchien Tsien (Chinese: 錢永健; pronounced /tʃɛn/, "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego[7] and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie.[8][9][10] Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging.[9][11]
- ^ Anon (2006). "Professor Roger Tsien ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- ^ Anon (2016). "Roger Tsien EMBO Profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
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tsienphdwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Roger Y. Tsien, chemist shared Nobel for tool to research Alzheimer's, dies at 64". The Washington Post. August 31, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
- ^ Tsien, Roger Y. (1998). "The Green Fluorescent Protein". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 67 (1): 509–544. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.67.1.509. PMID 9759496.
- ^ "Roger Tsien at UCSD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry". UCSD. 2008. Archived from the original (Official web page) on October 15, 2008. Retrieved November 4, 2008.
- ^ "2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates" (Official web page). The Nobel Foundation. October 8, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
NobelLecturewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Tsien, Roger Y. (2010). "The 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Roger Y. Tsien, Chemistry 2008". Journal of Visualized Experiments (35). doi:10.3791/1575. ISSN 1940-087X. PMC 3152217. PMID 20072108.
- ^ Rudolf, Rüdiger; Mongillo, Marco; Rizzuto, Rosario; Pozzan, Tullio (2003). "Looking forward to seeing calcium" (PDF). Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 4 (7): 579–586. doi:10.1038/nrm1153. PMID 12838340. S2CID 28988011. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
