Chemistry Nobel for trio who revealed molecular death-tag

摘要

Avram Hershko thought he might have a chance of winning this year's Nobel prize — for medicine. So when the results were announced last week, and his name wasn't on the list, Hershko decided to spend some time by the pool with his granddaughters: "Maybe some other year, I thought." But for Hershko, a biochemist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, it turned out to be the right year after all. While he was enjoying his holiday, Israeli radio announced on 6 October that he was a co-winner of this year's chemistry Nobel prize, together with Aaron Ciechanover, also at Haifa, and Irwin Rose of the University of California, Irvine. Hershko found out when his cousin phoned and told him.