Irwin Rose:
Irwin Rose is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
July 16, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York
Claim to Fame:
Rose is an American biochemist who shares the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko for the discovery of the the ubiquitin protein in cells. Ubiquitin functions as a waste removal protein and quality control during cell division by attaching itself to unwanted proteins.
