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'Glowing' jellyfish grabs Nobel

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Really? The jellyfish won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Not Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura, but jellyfish?

*headdesk*

Comments

[nuraycat]

but it GLOWS, man. really GLOWS.

Jellyfish

[jill_a_pdx]

Okay,

Is there not money involved in this prize?
I heart jellyfish by the megatons, but shit, dude, chemists are due their prestige/cash money for all those long, laborious hours that contribute awesomeness to society.

I am totally sharing your angst right now.

Re: Jellyfish

[cesiumsource]

Yes, there is a substantial monetary prize associated with the Nobel Prize.

Yay science!