For 20 years starting in 1967, Shimomura made summer pilgrimages to Friday Harbor in Washington state.

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Dr Shimomura, who worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, isolated this protein in 1962.

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Japan's Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura has ordered the country's Olympic Committee to investigate allegations of abuse in the sport.

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Green fluorescent protein was first discovered by Osamu Shimomura four decades ago.

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Along with Chalfie and Shimomura, he is sharing in today's Nobel Prize.

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Markoff recounted the efforts of one Tsutomu Shimomura of the San Diego Supercomputer Center in California to track down the perpetrator of a computer break-in.

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Japan's Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura said if true, the allegations were "deplorable".

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The study of that jellyfish's glow became Shimomura's life's work.

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Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were responsible for the discovery of a substance called green fluorescent protein, and its development into an important tool of modern biology.

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Shimomura first noticed green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1962.

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