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This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures/The Nobel Prizes.
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist.

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Irwin Rose (16 July 1926 – 2 June 2015) was a distinguished biochemist whose groundbreaking work in the field of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation revolutionized our understanding of cellular processes.

Early Life And Education

Irwin Rose, an American biologist and Nobel laureate, was born on July 16, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. His early life was marked by a move from Brooklyn to Spokane, Washington, when he was 13 due to his brother’s health concerns. Rose’s family was of secular Jewish descent; his mother, Ella Greenwald, was American-born with Hungarian roots, and his father, Harry Royze, came from the Odessa region of Russia. The family valued education, although none had pursued a career in research. Rose’s academic journey began at Washington State College but was interrupted by his service in the Navy during World War II. After the war, he utilized the G.I. Bill to complete his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1948, followed by a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1952.

Career And Achievements

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Irwin (Ernie) Allan Rose

UC Irvine professor Irwin (Ernie) Rose was born on July 16, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY and passed away during his sleep in Deerfield, Massachusetts in the early hours of June 2, 2015. He was 88 years old. Dr. Rose, a biochemist by training, was a world renowned enzymologist specializing in mechanisms of enzyme action. In 2004, he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko of the Israel Institute of Technology for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins – the basis for developing new therapies for diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis.

Ernie Rose grew up in NY but spent his teen years in Washington State. He attended Washington State College and the University of Chicago, earning both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the latter institution. After post-doctoral work at Case Western and New York University, he joined the faculty of the biochemistry department of the Yale School of Medicine in 1954, where he met his wife, Zelda Budenstein, a graduate student who also became a research

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Irwin Rose

In October 2004, Irwin Rose was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko. The three scientists discovered the major pathway through which cellular building blocks, known as ubiquitin proteins, are regulated and degenerated. This feat has opened the door to new means of developing drugs that are able to fight such illnesses as cancer, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease: thus enhancing and prolonging the lives of many.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on July 16, 1926, Rose attended Hebrew school, but became a “confirmed secularist” at age 10. He grew up in Spokane, Washington. He later studied at Washington State College and then served in the U.S. Navy as a radio technician near the end of World War II. He completed his undergraduate degree under the G.I. Bill of Rights in 1949 at the University of Chicago and went on to earn his doctorate in biochemistry there. He served on the faculty of Yale Medical School’s biochemistry department from 1954 to 1963. In 1963, he became a senior member of the Fox C