Martin Chalfie is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008.He shared the honour with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of GFP, the green fluorescent protein. In 2004 he was elected to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences.Also he holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University.
Background
Chalfie, Martin was born on January 15, 1947 in Chicago,Illinois. He is the grandchild of immigrants from Russia and Belarus. His father became the staff guitarist at one of the country's largest radio stations, WLW in Cincinnati(a place of his birth, where his parents settled), and later the guitarist with the Russ Morgan Orchestra.While at WLW he invented a radio quiz program called Tunecode, which he patented.
Madeline Friedlen was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.During the Depression Madeline started her own business, a dress-manufacturing company named Mountain Home Smart Apparel.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977.
Teacher Hamden Hall Country Day School, Connecticut, 1970—1971. Researcher Laboratory Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, 1977—1982. Faculty member Columbia University, New York City, since 1982, William R. Kenan, Junior professor, chairman department biological sciences.
Achievements
Works
Other Work
Co-editor (with Steven Kain): Green Fluorescent Protein: Properties, Applications and Protocols, 1998. Mem. Editl.Board Genome Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell. Contributor articles to professional journals.
over 100 papers of which at least 25 have over 100 citations.