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Irwin Rose
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American biologist (1926-2015)
Irwin Rose was an American biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for discovering how cells break down and recycle proteins, a fundamental process essential to life. His work revealed a tagging system that marks proteins for destruction, which has important implications for understanding diseases and developing new medical treatments.
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5 total works indexed
- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,381x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,060x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,058x
- Superoxide dismutase: Improved assays and an assay applicable to acrylamide gels
· 1971 · cited 10,455x
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Irwin Allan Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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