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Roger Yonchien Tsien (pronounced / tʃɛn /, "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist.
Roger Y. Tsien. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008. Born: 1 February 1952, New York, NY, USA. Died: 24 August 2016, Eugene, OR, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”
Oct 12, 2016 · Creator of a rainbow of fluorescent probes that lit up biology. Roger Yonchien Tsien pioneered the use of light and colour to 'peek and poke' at living cells to see how they...
- Timothy J. Rink, Louis Y. Tsien, Richard W. Tsien
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Roger Y. Tsien (born February 1, 1952, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 24, 2016, Eugene, Oregon) was an American chemist who was a corecipient, with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Dick confessed that he actually named me after Roy Rogers, the famous cowboy actor. I mention all this to clarify the origins of the similarity between the names “Richard W. Tsien” and “Roger Y. Tsien”, which has continually confused many scientists and their secretaries even up to now.
Sep 1, 2016 · Tsien, a chemist who worked mainly at the University of California, San Diego, probed the protein’s structure and used the insights to boost GFP’s glow and build a whole palette of fluorescent...
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Sep 5, 2016 · Roger Y. Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a rainbow of fluorescent proteins that could light up the dance of molecules within cells, died on Aug. 24 in Eugene,...
