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Avram Hershko

1937 - Today

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Avram Hershko (Hebrew: אברהם הרשקו, romanized: Avraham Hershko, Hungarian: Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avram Hershko has received more than 176,429 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Avram Hershko is the 123rd most popular chemist (down from 116th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Chemist.

Avram Hershko is most famous for his discovery of the enzyme L-glucocerebrosidase, which is responsible for breaking down certain types of fats in the body.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Avram Hershko ranks 123 out of 602. Before him are Vincent du Vigneaud, Gerhard Ertl, Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, and Georg Wittig. After him are Johan Gadolin, Clara Immerwahr, Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, and Raymond Davis Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Avram Hershko ranks 39. Before him are Karel Schwarzenberg, Bill Cosby, Jared Diamond, Warren Beatty, Gennady Yanayev, and Sajida Talfah. After him are Philip Glass, Juvénal Habyarimana, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Santer, Colleen McCullough, and Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Avram Hershko ranks 80 out of 1,077. Before him are Marie Henriette of Austria (1836), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Sándor Ferenczi (1873), Kinga of Poland (1224), Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), and Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940). After him are Irene of Hungary (1088), Marcel Breuer (1902), Stephen II of Hungary (1101), Felix Salten (1869), Zoltán Czibor (1929), and Michael Curtiz (1886).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hungary

Among chemists born in Hungary, Avram Hershko ranks 3. Before him are George de Hevesy (1885), and Katalin Karikó (1955). After him are George Andrew Olah (1927), Mária Telkes (1900), Michael Polanyi (1891), and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904).

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