NOBEL LAUREATE IN CHEMISTRY AARON CIECHANOVER TO BE AWARDED WITH ARMENIAN EDUCATION MINISTRY MEDAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 12, 2010 – 17:35 AMT 12:35 GMT
On April 13, Armenian Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan
will award Nobel laureate in Chemistry Aaron Ciechanover with golden
ministerial medal.
Aaron Ciechanover (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist,
and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Ciechanover was born in Haifa, Palestine, a year before the
establishment of the State of Israel. His family had immigrated from
Poland before the Second World War. He earned a master’s degree
in science in 1971 and graduated from Hadassah Medical School in
Jerusalem in 1974. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1982
from the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology), in Haifa. He
is currently a Technion Distinguished Research Professor in the Ruth
and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute at
the Technion.
Ciechanover is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and is a foreign
associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.