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sad news - Roger Tsien died

Posted by George McNamara on Aug 31, 2016; 11:43pm
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/sad-news-Roger-Tsien-died-tp7585591.html

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http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46930/title/Nobel-Laureate-Roger-Tsien-Dies

Roger Tsien <http://www.tsienlab.ucsd.edu/>, a biochemist at the
University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) whoearned a Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 2008
<http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/26813/title/Green-team-wins-2008-Nobel/>for
his work on green fluorescent protein, died last week (August 24) in
Oregon. He was 64.

According to the/Union-Tribune/
<http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/31/roger-tsien-dies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>today
(August 31), Tsien died on a bike trial in Eugene, Oregon, but the
precise cause of his death was not yet determined.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/31/roger-tsien-dies

Roger Tsien, the exuberant and resourceful UC San Diego researcher
whoshared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry
<http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2008/oct/08/bn08nobel122329-Tsien/>for
helping to find a more effective way to peer inside cells and
organisms,died on Aug. 24
<http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/nobel_laureate_roger_tsien_dies_age_64>.
He was 64.

Tsien appears to have passed away while on a bike trail in Eugene,
Oregon, said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, who broke the news
to the campus community on Wednesday. The precise cause of death has yet
to be determined.


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