Nobel laureate learned of his victory from the Internet

One of the three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry in 2008 Chalfi Martin (Martin Chalfie) learned of his victory in the Internet. It is reported agency AFP.

According to the scholar, the night before the prize he had set his phone to call a low voice, so when he called in the morning from the Nobel Committee, he thought that the call in a neighboring apartment. To find out who won the prestigious award, Chalfi resorting to the World Wide Web.
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Martin Chalfi, Osamu Simomura (Osamu Shimomura) and Douglas Prasher (Douglas Prasher) received the Nobel Prize for his work on the green fluorescent protein (green fluorescence protein - GFP). This compound, originally discovered in the tissues of jellyfish Aequorea victoria, has made this revolution in biological research. With the advent of the protein from scientists appeared effective tool for studying the processes in living organisms.