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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 161,703 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Avram Hershko is the 116th most popular chemist (up from 122nd in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 89th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 116 out of 509. Before him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, Paul J. Crutzen, James Dewar, Stanford Moore, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and Leopold Ružička. After him are John Macleod, Casimir Funk, Richard R. Ernst, William Howard Stein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Lars Onsager.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Avram Hershko ranks 37. Before him are Gennady Yanayev, Bill Cosby, Alain Badiou, David Hockney, Gordon Banks, and Princess Birgitta of Sweden. After him are Robert Lucas Jr., Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Colleen McCullough, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Claude Lelouch, and Juvénal Habyarimana.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Avram Hershko ranks 73 out of 866. Before him are Géza II of Hungary (1130), János Áder (1959), Solomon, King of Hungary (1053), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940), and Sándor Ferenczi (1873). After him are Michael Curtiz (1886), Béla II of Hungary (1108), Violant of Hungary (1215), Zoltán Czibor (1929), Stephen III of Hungary (1147), and Irene of Hungary (1088).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hungary

Among chemists born in Hungary, Avram Hershko ranks 2. Before him are George de Hevesy (1885). After him are George Andrew Olah (1927), Katalin Karikó (1955), Mária Telkes (1900), and Michael Polanyi (1891).

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