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 ... Shimomura continued to study GFP and identified its chromophore in 1979. 4 Ultimately, though, he returned to studying bioluminescence. Morin also was ...