These chapters also chronicle the challenges faced by early researchers, such as Edmund Harvey who first popularized the scientific study of living light, and Osamu Shimomura who unraveled how the ...

Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP in the jellyfish __Aequorea victoria__ in 1962 while working at Princeton University, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University first expressed the protein in __E. coli__ ...

The topics covered went from the well-known to the obscure, from a talk about periodic table legend Mendeleev, to fluorescent protein researcher Osamu Shimomura, and from the chemistry of baking to a ...