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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.
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