1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in chemistry

1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in chemistry

FALMOUTH, United States - Osamu Shimomura of Japan, professor emeritus at Boston University Medical School, speaks to reporters at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on Oct. 8 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien of the United States.

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