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|influences = |influenced = |awards = |religion = |signature = |footnotes = | website = }} Roger Yonchien Tsien (錢永健)(born February 1, 1952) is an American biochemist. He is a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diegoand was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two other chemists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Osamu Shimomura of Boston University and Marine Biological Laboratory.〔(Tsien Nobel Prize lecture )〕〔 〕 ==Education and early life== Tsien was born in New York, in 1952.〔 He grew up in Livingston, New Jersey〔 and attended Livingston High School there.〔Swayze, Bill. ("Jersey teens call science a winner: Two finalists say just being in Westinghouse talent competition is prize enough" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', March 11, 1997. Accessed September 18, 2007. "Only one New Jersey teenager has ever captured top honors in the history of the competition. That was Roger Tsien in 1968. The then-16-year-old Livingston High School math-science whiz explored the way subatomic particles act as bridges between two dissimilar metal atoms in various complex molecules."〕 Tsien suffered from asthma as a child, and as a result, he was often indoors. He spent hours conducting chemistry experiments in his basement laboratory. When he was 16, he won first prize in the nationwide Westinghouse talent search with a project investigating how metals bind to thiocyanate.〔Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, and Robert L. Hill. ("The Chemistry of Fluorescent Indicators: the Work of Roger Y. Tsien" ), ''Journal of Biological Chemistry'', September 15, 2006. Accessed September 18, 2007. "At age 16, Tsien won first prize in the nationwide Westinghouse talent search with a project investigating how metals bind to thiocyanate."〕 He attended Harvard University on a National Merit Scholarship, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and physics in 1972. According to his freshman-year roommate, economist and Iowa politician Herman Quirmbach, “It’s probably not an exaggeration to say he’s the smartest person I ever met... ()nd I have met a lot of brilliant people.” After completing his bachelor's degree, he joined the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England with the aid of a Marshall Scholarship. He received his PhD in physiology from Churchill College, Cambridge 1977 for research on ''The Design and Use of Organic Chemical Tools in Cellular Physiology'' supervised by Jeremy Sanders.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Y. Tsien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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