Sadly, Douglas Prasher, who actually cloned GFP, couldn't get his work funded at the time and ended up leaving science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_P

Sadly, Douglas Prasher, who actually cloned GFP, couldn't get his work funded at the time and ended up leaving science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher Arguably, he should have shared the Nobel. Makes one wonder what the rationale is for the Nobel only allowing up to three shared winners.