Honours and Awards
- 1987 – Weizmann Prize for Sciences (Israel)
- 1994 – Israel Prize in biochemistry
- 1999 – Gairdner International Award Canada (with A. Varshavsky)
- 2000 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (with A. Ciechanover and A. Varshavsky).
- 2001 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
- 2001 – Wolf Prize in Medicine (Israel), jointly with Alexander Varshavsky, for 'the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation."
- 2003 – Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2004 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
In 2005, he was voted the co-31st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. Hershko's work and reception of the Nobel Prize is cited as a historic milestone in the unique history of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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