Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2008 is swept away by three American chemists Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for their discovery and development of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). Each of the three will share one-third (33.33 percent) of the Nobel Prize as stated by the Nobel Foundation.

Osamu Shimomura works at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Massachusetts. He had left for Princeton from Japan in 1960. He was a first person to isolate GFP to find the part of GFP responsible for fluorescence. To read more on Osamu Shimomura and his works, visit: http://www.conncoll.edu/ccacad/zimmer/GFP-ww/shimomura.html.

Among other two Nobel Prize winning researchers - Martin Chalfie is from Columbia University in New York, and Roger Y. Tsien is from University of California.

Osamu Shimomura was born in 1928, Martin Chalfie in 1947, and Roger Y. Tsien in 1952. This year, Nobel Prize in Physics and Nobel Prize in Medicine also have been given to three people.

Read more on Nobel Prize in Chemistry for year 2008 from official Nobel Foundation website here:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/.