أوسامو شيمومورا

下村 脩 اوسامو شيمومورا
شيمومورا td 2008
وُلِدَ	(1928-08-27)أغسطس 27, 1928 فوكوتشي‌ياما، امبراطورية اليابان
توفي	أكتوبر 19, 2018(2018-10-19) (aged 90) ناگاساكي، اليابان
الجنسية	Japan
المدرسة الأم	جامعة ناگاساكي جامعة ناگويا
السيرة العلمية
الهيئات	كلية الطب، جامعة بوسطن معمل الأحياء البحرية

أوسامو شيمومورا (August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) عالم ياباني ، أستاذ العلوم البيولوجية البحرية في وودز هول بولاية مساتشوستس، حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء 2008 لقيامة بعدة دراسات لتطوير ما يُعرف بالبروتينات الفلورية الخضراء.

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 النشأة

Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchuria and Osaka, Japan where his father, an army officer, moved for his service. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki. He was a first-hand witness of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 and overcame great odds in the following 11 years to gain an education and achieve academic success. His education was interruped by the devastation in the early postwar years. He enrolled in Nagasaki University and received a degree in 1951. In 1956, he found employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University. It was while working for Professor Hirata that he was assigned to a daunting task of finding out what made the crushed remains of a type of mollusc (Jap. umi-hotaru, lit. "sea-firefly", Vargula hilgendorfii) glow when moistened with water. This led Shimomura to identify the protein behind this and he published the findings in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan in a paper entitled Crystalline Cypridina luciferin. which caught the attention of Professor Frank Johnson at Princeton University. Frank Johnson successfully recruited Shimomura to work with him in 1960. Before Shimomura left Nagoya University, Professor Hirata ensured that Shimomura's accomplishments were aptly recognized by getting the University to honour him by awarding an honourary PhD degree.

 الدراسة

Dr. Shimomura worked in the Department of Biology at Princeton where he worked with Frank Johnson to study the Jellyfish Aequorea victoria. Their work culminated in the discovery of the proteins aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP); the work for which he was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2008.

 العائلة

His wife, Akemi, whom Shimomura met at Nagasaki University, is also an organic chemist and a partner in his research activities. Their son, Tsutomu Shimomura, is a computer security expert who was involved in the arrest of Kevin Mitnick. Their daughter, Sachi Shimomura, is Director of Undergraduate Studies for the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature.

 الجوائز

• Pearse Prize (2004)
• Emile Chamot Award (2005)
• Asahi Prize (2006)
• Nobel Prize (2008)

 المراجع

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008
• Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence -Harvard University Press