The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
Awarded on: 2004-10-06
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Affiliations:
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – Haifa, Israel
Aaron Ciechanover
Born: 1947-10-01 in Haifa, British Protectorate of Palestine (now Israel)
Gender: male
Field: Israeli biologist and Nobel Laureate
Biography
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.