Shimomura and two American scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for the discovery of a jellyfish protein that later contributed to cancer studies
Japanese-born marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. He was 90.
His alma mater Nagasaki University said on Monday that Shimomura died on Friday of natural causes.
Shimomura and two American scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of a jellyfish protein that later contributed to cancer studies.
Shimomura was born in northern Kyoto in 1928 and studied in Nagasaki, where he survived the August 9,1945, US atomic bombing at age 16. His high school education was cut short during the second world war as he was mobilised to work at a munitions factory.
He eventually earned a chemistry degree in 1951 from Nagasaki College of Pharmacy.
