Martin Lee Chalfie was born on January 15,1947 and is an American scientist.
12 Facts About Martin Chalfie
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Martin Chalfie shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".
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Martin Chalfie holds a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard University.
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Martin Chalfie matriculated at Harvard University in 1965, intending to be a math major, but he switched to biochemistry because it combined his interests in chemistry, math, and biology.
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Martin Chalfie competed on the swim team at Harvard and was named captain in his senior year.
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Martin Chalfie later joined him on the faculty of Columbia University.
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Martin Chalfie gave him permission to cite her unpublished research in his seminal Science paper "Green Fluorescent Protein as a Marker for Gene Expression" on condition that he made coffee, cooked, and emptied the garbage nightly for a month.
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Martin Chalfie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
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Martin Chalfie slept through the phone call from the Nobel Prize Committee.
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In 2015, Martin Chalfie signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
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Martin Chalfie has published over 100 papers of which at least 25 have over 100 citations.
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Martin Chalfie won a Golden Goose Award for this work in 2012.