Shimomura Osamu

Years of life

1928 - 2018

Academic degree

PhD

Field of studies

Medical biotechnologies

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Leading scientist's research interests: Mechanisms of transformation of energy in luminescent organisms, evolution of bioluminescence

Quote by the head of the laboratory: Russian scientists in Krasnoyarsk are the only group today that is studying mechanisms of bioluminescence, various species of luciferins. Nobody else studies this, everybody only works on applied research

Awards and achievements:

2008 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of a jellyfish protein. The Prize was awarded in collaboration with Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie (Sweden).

2008 – Order of Culture (Japan).

2006, 2008 – Asahi Prize (Japan).

2005 – Emile Chamot Award (USA).

2004 – Pearse Prize, Royal Microscopical Society for the discovery of GFP (United Kingdom).

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Hosting organization	Field of studies	City	Invited researcher	Time span of the project
Laboratory for the Inter-disciplinary Study of Space Tyumen State University - (UTMN)	History and archaeology	Tyumen	Bassin Mark USA	2021-2023
Laboratory for Architectural Archaeology and the Inter-disciplinary Study of Architectural Monuments The Institute of Archaeology of the RAS - (IA RAS)	History and archaeology	Moscow	Giumlia-Mair Alessandra Switzerland, Italy	2021-2023
Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research Tomsk State University - (TSU)	History and archaeology	Tomsk	Funk Dmitriy Anatoliyevich Russia	2013-2017