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The Nobel
Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901
for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature
and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted
the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
founder of the Nobel Prize.
The Prize Winners are announced
in October every year. They receive their awards (a prize
amount, a gold medal and a diploma) on December 10, the
anniversary of Nobel's death. |
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Alfred Nobel
was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was
descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical
genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in
northern Europe.
Nobel invented dynamite in 1866
and later built up companies and laboratories in more
than 20 countries all over the world.
On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed
his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel
Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in
San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. |
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Alfred died
in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. In his last will
and testament, he wrote that much of his fortune was to
be used to give prizes to those who have done their best
for humanity in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology
or medicine, literature and peace.
In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes
in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature
were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden and the Peace
Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. |
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| The first
Prize Award Ceremony in 1901 at the Old Royal Academy
of Music in Stockholm. |
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| Aaron Ciechanover |
Aaron Ciechanover is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Aaron was born in Haifa in 1947. He received his M.D. degrees (1975) from the Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Technion (1981).
Following his graduate studies, Ciechanover obtained his post-doctoral training (1981-1984) with Dr. Harvey Lodish at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, There he studied receptor-mediated endocytosis and deciphered the mechanism of iron uptake into the cell by the transferrin receptor. In parallel, he continued his independent work on the ubiquitin system and studied the mechanism of recognition of protein substrates by the ubiquitin system which endows the system with its high specificity and selectivity. Following his return to Israel (1984) he joined the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in Haifa and established his own laboratory .He is one-third winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2004 for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation¡±. He is a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences.
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