Roger tsien nobel biography

American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1952–2016)

Roger Yonchien Tsien (Chinese: 錢永健; pronounced , "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist.

He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego,^[7] and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemistOsamu Shimomura and neurobiologistMartin Chalfie.^[8][9][10] Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging.^[9][11]

Early life

Tsien was born to a Chinese American family in New York in 1952.^[12] He grew up in Livingston, New Jersey^[12] and attended Livingston High School.^[13] Tsien traces his family ancestry to Hangzhou, China.

His father Hsue-Chu Tsien, an MIT and Shanghai Chiao Tung University alumnus, was a mechanicalengineer and had excell