Nobel Prize in Chemistry Shared By Israelis and American
October 7, 2004
Nobel Prize in chemistry shared by Israelis and American
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their research in discovering ubiquitin- mediated protein degradation.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave the supreme honor to Ciechanover, 57; Hershko, 67; and Irwin Rose, 78, for their work in the 1980s that found out one of the cell’s most important cyclical processes, protein degradation.