STM publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that all the three 2008 Chemistry Nobel laureates - Dr. Osamu Shimomura, Dr. Martin Chalfie and Dr. Roger Y. Tsien - are part of its publishing community. The scientists bagged the honour for discovering green fluorescent protein and related marine photoproteins, and developing them into useful tools for chemical, biological and medical analysis. The original discovery of green fluorescent protein was reported by Dr. Shimomura in 1962 in Wiley'sJournal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology.
Green Fluorescent Protein: Properties, Applications, and Protocols, a book by Dr. Chalfie, which also contains contributions by the other two awardees, was published by Wiley in 1998. It is seen to have greatly facilitated the use of that technology and become the classic text in the field. More of the Nobel laureates' work has appeared in 10 Wiley journals and periodicals including ChemBioChem, Cytometry, Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neurochemistry, Luminescence, Photochemistry and Photobiology, The Harvey Lectures and The Plant Journal. A historical account of the discovery of green fluorescent protein written by Dr. Shimomura can be found in the book Photoproteins in Bioanalysis (2006).
The three scientists join more than 350 other Nobel laureates who have published with Wiley, including this year's Medicine awardees Dr. Harald zur Hausen, Dr. Francoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, and Physics awardee Yoichiro Nambu.
