Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2012).
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Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
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Born 31 December 1937 · Q232302
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Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2012).
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– Elected to the American Philosophical Society
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004).
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Awarded The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2002).
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Won E. B. Wilson Medal (2002).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (2001).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2001).
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Awarded Massry Prize (2001).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2000).
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Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (2000).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1999).
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Published “SKP2 is required for ubiquitin-mediated degradation of the CDK inhibitor p27” in Nature Cell Biology — cited 1,255 times.
Won Schleiden Medal (1998).
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Published “THE UBIQUITIN SYSTEM” in Annual Review of Biochemistry — cited 7,387 times.
Awarded Israel Prize (1994).
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Published “THE UBIQUITIN SYSTEM FOR PROTEIN DEGRADATION” in Annual Review of Biochemistry — cited 1,134 times.
Published “Components of ubiquitin-protein ligase system. Resolution, affinity purification, and role in protein breakdown.” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 935 times.
And his PhD in 1969 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical Center
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Born 1937-12-31.
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