The 2008 Nobel prize in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine and the Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced later this week!

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

Osamu Shimomura ,Martin Chalfie &Roger Y. Tsien
1/3 of the prize each from- USA
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
Woods Hole, MA; USA Columbia University
New York, NY; & USA University of California
San Diego, CA, USA repectively