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Something wrong?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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