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BU Prof Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
It took more than 30 years for Osamu Shimomura to realize that his research on jellyfish would
revolutionize the world of biology and another 14 for the Nobel Prize committee to recognize his
contribution. Yesterday, after learning that his discovery of luminescent proteins in jellyfish
had won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, he told reporters what he learned from the experience.
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