# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avram-hershko
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:10:09.735Z

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description: "Hershko won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that reshaped how we understand the cell's waste-disposal system — the mechanism that marks proteins for destruction and keeps everything else alive."
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birthDate: "1937-12-31"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Hungary on December 31, 1937, Hershko eventually settled in Israel and built a career in biochemistry that converged on a single elegant question: how does a cell know which proteins to throw away? The answer — a tagging system that earned him the Nobel in 2004 — revealed molecular machinery so fundamental that nearly every process in the body depends on it.