CRI听力： American, Japanese scientists share 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that Osamu Shimomura from Japan and Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien from the United States jointly won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

The academy said they share the prize for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP, which was first seen in jellyfish. Their work has helped scientists study how cancer cells spread.

Gunnar Oquist is Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.(Www.hXen.com)

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2008, jointly to Professor Martin Chalfie, Columbia University in New York, Professor Osamu Shimomura, Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, Woods Hole and Professor Roger Tsien, University of California, San Diego. And the Academy citation runs: For the discovery and development of the green florescent protein, GFP."

Osamu Shimomura was born in 1928 in Kyoto, Japan. Martin Chalfie, born in 1947, is a U.S. citizen. And American-Chinese Roger Tsien was born in 1952 in New York.

This was the third prestigious Nobel Prize handed out this year, with awards in physics and medicine made in the past two days.