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Avram Hershko

Israeli scientist · Israel · Educators · Born 1937 · age 88

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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.

A life in dates

2012Silver Medal of the President of the SenateAward2004Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward2002E. B. Wilson MedalAwardThe EMET Prize for Art, Science and CultureAward2001Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAwardMassry PrizeAwardWolf Prize in MedicineAward2000Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAwardAlfred P. Sloan, Jr. PrizeAward1999Canada Gairdner International AwardAward1998Schleiden MedalAward1994Israel PrizeAward1937Born31 December 1937

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Awards

Silver Medal of the President of the Senate2012
Nobel Prize in Chemistry2004
E. B. Wilson Medal2002
The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture2002
Wolf Prize in Medicine2001
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize2001
Massry Prize2001
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research2000
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize2000
Canada Gairdner International Award1999
Schleiden Medal1998
Israel Prize1994
Honorary Doctorate of Haifa University
EMBO Membership

About this person

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.

Country
Israel
Category
Educators
Type
Educator
Status
living
Dates
Born 1937 · age 88

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