Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Roger Y. Tsien receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
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Roger Y. Tsien after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
Photo: Hans Mehlin

Seated at the table of honour are (from left to right): Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Tsien, Princess Madeleine and Laureate in Economic Sciences Paul Krugman.

Seated at the table of honour at the Nobel Banquet are (from left to right): Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Tsien, Princess Madeleine and Laureate in Economic Sciences Paul Krugman.

Roger Y. Tsien delivering his banquet speech.

The 2008 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation, 12 December 2008. Back row, left to right: Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate in Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Economics Laureate Paul Krugman and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Harald zur Hausen. Front row, left to right: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureates in Physics Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier.

Roger Y. Tsien lectures about GFP during a visit to the Värmdö Gymnasium School in Stockholm, 12 December 2008.

Roger Y. Tsien signing autographs for enthusiastic pupils during a visit to the Värmdö Gymnasium School in Stockholm, 12 December 2008.

Roger Y. Tsien (middle) at the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, 9 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien after delivering their Nobel Lectures at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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Roger Y. Tsien delivering his Nobel Lecture at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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Osamu Shimomura (left), Martin Chalfie (middle) and Roger Y. Tsien (right) at their interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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Roger Y. Tsien, like many Nobel Laureates before him, autographs a chair at Kafé Satir at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2008.

Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2008.

Roger Y. Tsien browsing Nobelprize.org in his office. He received the telephone call from Stockholm in the middle of the night.

Professor Roger Tsien during a press conference at the University of California, San Diego, Wednesday 8 October, 2008.

Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien toasts his Nobel Prize in front of the cameras at a press conference at the University of California, San Diego. To his left is UCSD bioengineering researcher Shu Chien and to his right is Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences David Brenner.

UCSD researcher Roger Tsien answers questions from reporters by speakerphone.

UC San Diego researcher Roger Tsien with current and past colleagues, and students from his lab.

The green fluorescent protein GFP is shaped like a cylinder.

E. coli expressing various fluorescent proteins were used to produce this image in a petri dish.

A page of sketches of chemistry experiments Roger Tsien copied from a book when he was eight years old. Tsien's blossoming interest in chemistry is evident in the drawing.

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Roger Y. Tsien

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