Osamu Shimomura ( 下村 脩 , Shimomura Osamu , August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese ^{[1] [2]} organic chemist and marine biologist . He was Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine . He was born in Kyoto .

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego. ^[3]

Shimomura died on October 19, 2018 in Nagasaki at the age of 90. ^[4]

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