Columbia Prof Receives Nobel Prize For Chemistry
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A Columbia University professor is among three people to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Martin Chalfie, the chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, says he actually learned about his win on the Internet, after sleeping through the phone call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The 61 year old said the ring on the phone was too faint.
Chalfie shares the prize with fellow American Roger Tsien and Japan's Osamu Shimomura for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP, which was first seen in jelly fish.