Re: sad news - Roger Tsien died

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> Il giorno 01 set 2016, alle ore 01:43, George McNamara <[hidden email]> ha scritto:
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> http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46930/title/Nobel-Laureate-Roger-Tsien-Dies
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/31/roger-tsien-dies
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> 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.
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> 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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