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Martin Chalfie wins Nobel Prize for GFP in C. elegans
Martin Chalfie (with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien) has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of GFP in C. elegans. This is the third Nobel Prize awarded for research on C. elegans in the last six years.