Shlomo Hestrin (

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שלמה הסטרין; born 1914; died 2 February 1962) was an Israeli biochemist.

Biography

Hestrin was born in 1914 in

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. He emigrated with his parents to then

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, now

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, in 1932.

Awards

In 1957, Hestrin was awarded the Israel Prize, in

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s, jointly with his research partner David Sidney Feingold and their student Gad Avigad. Hestrin's sister, Sara Hestrin-Lerner, was the recipient of the Israel Prize, in medical science, in 1955.

Biography

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