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- Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series.
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Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year.
Sep 6, 2019 · Born in Hyōgo to a family that encouraged her to study piano since grade school, Shimomura was raised on Romantic composers like Chopin and Rachmaninoff, drawing particular influence from the...
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Oct 19, 2018 · Osamu Shimomura. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008. Born: 27 August 1928, Kyoto, Japan. Died: 19 October 2018, Nagasaki, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA; Boston University Medical School, Massachusetts, MA, USA.
- A Wartime Childhood
- The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb and The End of The War
- Nagasaki Pharmacy College
- The Hirata Lab and Cypridina Luciferin
- To America
- To The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
- After My Retirement
Iwas born on August 27, 1928, in the town of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto-Fu, Japan. My father Chikara was an army captain of the Fukuchiyama regiment. In the spring of 1933, my father took a post in Manchuria, which was under Japanese occupation. Because there were some insurgents in the Manchurian area, my mother Yukie, my younger brother Sadamu, and I cho...
On August 6, 1945, news reports informed us that the city of Hiroshima had been completely destroyed by a new type of bomb; we didn’t know what kind. Three days later, shortly before 11 AM, a siren sounded at the Isahaya factory, notifying us of an air raid. As usual, rather than going into a bunker, I went to the top of a nearby hill with a couple...
I tried to enter three different colleges in 1946 and 1947, but all rejected me. I didn’t have a strong school record to assist me, because I hadn’t studied even one day at the Isahaya school from which I graduated. I then heard that the Nagasaki Pharmacy College, a part of Nagasaki Medical College, was readying a temporary campus at a vacated mili...
I enrolled in the Hirata laboratory, Department of Science, Nagoya University, as a research student in April, 1955. The Hirata lab was a wonderful place with a splendid atmosphere. Nobody taught me anything, but I learned much by watching other people and by independent study. On my first day, Professor Hirata brought out a large vacuum desiccator...
In the spring of 1959, I received a letter from Dr. Frank Johnson (Fig. 2, right) of Princeton University inviting me to work at his laboratory. When Professor Hirata heard about my plan to go to Princeton, he awarded me a doctoral degree for my Cypridina work, even though I wasn’t enrolled as a doctoral student. Prof. Hirata knew having a doctorat...
Dr. Johnson retired from Princeton in 1977, and I decided to move to a marine laboratory. Before leaving Princeton, I elucidated the chromophore of GFP (Shimomura, 1979). I also performed research on dinoflagellate luciferin and luminous scale worms. In 1981, with the kind arrangement made by Dr. Woodland Hastings of Harvard University and Dr. Benj...
I retired from the Marine Biological Laboratory in 2001. Because I wanted to do some more experiments and also I was still supplying aequorin samples to people upon request, I moved all my laboratory equipment and chemicals to my home, where I set up my Photoprotein Laboratory. My retirement symposium, “GFP and Aequorin,” was held at the MBL’s Lill...
Oct 15, 2024 · Osamu Shimomura (born August 27, 1928, Fukuchiyama, Japan—died October 19, 2018, Nagasaki) was a Japanese-born chemist who was a corecipient, with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Nov 13, 2018 · Chemist who illuminated bioluminescence. By. Georgina Ferry. Credit: Marine Biological Laboratory/Tom Kleindinst. Growing up during one of the darkest times in history, Osamu Shimomura...
Oct 25, 2018 · Osamu Shimomura: Japanese scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his work with glow-in-the-dark marine life. Having survived the US bombing of Nagasaki, he trained as a marine...
