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Irwin Rose

Scientist · born July 16, 1926 · died 2015

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Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

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  1. ~45Named Guggenheim Fellowship1971
  2. ~78Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2004

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