Avram Hershko

Israeli scientist

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Born 1937 · age 89
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    Born 1937
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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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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.

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