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Osamu Shimomura — Age & Birthday

Born: 27 August 1928 · Died: 19 October 2018 · Age at death: 90

How old was Osamu Shimomura when he died?

Osamu Shimomura died aged 90. He was born on 27 August 1928 and died on 19 October 2018.

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein

Did you know?To gather enough material for his research, he and his family reportedly caught hundreds of thousands of glowing jellyfish in the wild.

Osamu Shimomura (下村脩, Shimomura Osamu; August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.

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Age at death: 90
Would be: 98
Years since death: 8

Born: August 27, 1928 · Fukuchiyama, Japan
Died: October 19, 2018
Cause of death: Senility
Nationality: Japanese
Known for: Science

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