Nobel winner returns to sea firefly island

Nobel winner returns to sea firefly island

ONOMICHI, Japan - Osamu Shimomura (C), a Nobel laureate in chemistry, explains how to trap sea fireflies to participants in an observation event on Sept. 24, 2013 on Kone Island in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture.

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