Osamu Shimomura’s Serendipitous NobelReturning to BU, a chemist recounts a remarkable scientific journey By Leslie Friday

Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down. Beside him, David Atkinson, chairman of the School of Medicine physiology and biophysics department, displayed a gold medallion the size of his palm to the growing crowd: Shimomura’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. “See that everybody?” Atkinson asked. “That’s the real thing.”

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Archives November, 2009

• The Binge Eater as Junkie Researchers find similarities in food, alcohol, and drug cravings November 20, 2009
• H1N1 Lightens Up An encouraging decline in cases, here and nationally November 19, 2009
• Senate Candidates Face Off on Environment Capuano, Coakley, Khazei, and Pagliuca square off on Comm Ave November 18, 2009
• Osamu Shimomura’s Serendipitous Nobel Returning to BU, a chemist recounts a remarkable scientific journey November 18, 2009
• Moving Medical Advances into Developing Nations New agreement aims to remove licensing barriers November 17, 2009
• Stylish Shoes Have a Serious Price Tag BU study shows it’s heels today, pain tomorrow November 16, 2009
• New Nano Technique Could Help Detect Disease Research team harnesses photonic technology November 16, 2009
• Pairing Up with Alzheimer’s Patients MED students learn the person is important, not the disease November 12, 2009
• Silent, and Excellent, Teachers MED’s anatomical gift coordinator teaches students to honor the dead November 9, 2009
• One Class, One Day: CSI, for Real Elizabeth Laposata dissects medical forensics November 3, 2009
• To Fight Cancer, Linking Investors and Inventors BU, National Cancer Institute to showcase biotechs to venture capitalists November 2, 2009
• Parabolic Pumpkins The fifth annual Pumpkin Drop demonstrates that gravity still rules November 2, 2009

Archives October, 2009

• Counting the Ways October 28, 2009
• The Flu Is Here, but Not the Vaccine University awaits shipments as victims recover October 27, 2009
• Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake? Bicknell Lecture tomorrow delves into tobacco regulation October 22, 2009
• Seeing into Space Two research projects refine and redefine our understanding of the galaxy October 21, 2009
• Thomas Kunz’s University Lecture Is Airborne Bat expert looks up and sees new frontier: the aerosphere October 19, 2009
• Engineers Without Borders Reaches Peru Dinner and auction will help them get back, and do more October 19, 2009
• BU Abroad: Pediatrics in Ecuador Rounds in a Quito hospital become an eye-opening experience October 16, 2009
• An Incubator That Hatches Businesses Part two: More innovation at Photonics October 14, 2009
• Football Brains Hard-hitting evidence connects concussions and dementia October 13, 2009
• Big-Bellied Trash Eaters Arrive These guys are solar-powered, and should reduce carbon footprint October 13, 2009
• An Incubator That Hatches Businesses Behind closed doors at Photonics, ideas turn practical October 13, 2009
• Got the Blues? Faculty, staff, and students can get screened on National Depression Screening Day October 8, 2009
• Black Women’s Health Study Will Continue Grant extends landmark research at Slone Center October 8, 2009
• Prodding the Issue October 5, 2009
• Recycling That Cooking Oil Pilot program hopes to connect Fryolators to boiler rooms October 1, 2009

Archives September, 2009

• Future Health-Care Managers Wonder What’s Next The national debate leaves grad students facing uncertainty September 30, 2009
• Grow Clinic and Food Pantry See Too Many Tough economy drives more people to the steep edge of hunger September 28, 2009
• Astronomer Takes UNH Post CAS Astronomy Professor Harlan Spence will join the University of New Hampshire faculty September 25, 2009
• Connections and Credibility BU Medical Campus outreach director Raysa Tapia helps give Boston-area kids a boost September 18, 2009
• Sargent Center Officially in New Hands Lease finalized for running environmental education program at Sargent Center September 15, 2009
• BUworks Moves Forward Large software company chosen for centralized system September 14, 2009
• Bat Man vs. White Nose Thomas Kunz is fighting a killer disease September 10, 2009