Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP in the jellyfish __Aequorea victoria__ in 1962 while working at Princeton University, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University first expressed the protein in __E. coli__ ...

Martin Chalfie, Columbia University Today, we call them fluorescent proteins ... “That indicated there must be some kind of coupling,” Morin said. Shimomura continued to study GFP and identified its ...