![Avram Hershko, 1937-](https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Current-Hershko_Avram-by-Amos-Ben-Gershom-Israeli-GPO-2004.jpg)
A native of Hungary who immigrated to Israel in 1950, Hershko led the biochemistry department at the Technion. He and colleague Aaron Ciechanover became the first Israelis to win a Nobel Prize in the natural sciences when they shared the 2004 chemistry prize with American Irwin Rose for discovering ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation and proving that the ubiquitin molecule is vital to cells.
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Israeli Government Press Office