Roger Tsien
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| Born | Roger Yonchien Tsien February 1, 1952 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 24, 2016 (aged 64) Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
| Residence | San Diego, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
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| Thesis | The design and use of organic chemical tools in cellular physiology (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Adrian |
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| Spouse | Wendy Globe |
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| Traditional Chinese | 錢永健 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 钱永健 | ||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Qián Yǒngjiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'ien Yung-chien |
Roger Yonchien Tsien (Chinese: 錢永健; 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 and was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging.
Tsien was born in New York, in 1952. He grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and attended Livingston High School there.
Tsien suffered from asthma as a child, and as a result, he was often indoors. He spent hours conducting chemistry experiments in his basement laboratory. When he was 16, he won first prize in the nationwide Westinghouse Talent Search with a project investigating how metals bind to thiocyanate.
Tsien attended Harvard College on a National Merit Scholarship, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and physics in 1972. According to his freshman-year roommate, economist and Iowa politician Herman Quirmbach, “It’s probably not an exaggeration to say he’s the smartest person I ever met... [a]nd I have met a lot of brilliant people.”
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