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Irwin Rose

1926 - 2015

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irwin Rose is the 50th most popular biologist (up from 64th in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from United States (up from 669th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Biologist.

Irwin Rose is most famous for his discovery of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) in 1979. EPO is a hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells and is used to treat anemia.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Irwin Rose ranks 50 out of 1,097. Before him are Richard Henderson, Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Tomas Lindahl. After him are Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and François Jacob.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Irwin Rose ranks 24. Before him are Svetlana Alliluyeva, Nuon Chea, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Andrzej Wajda, Chuck Berry, and Miles Davis. After him are Harper Lee, Hugh Hefner, Jerry Lewis, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Paul Berg, and Sydney Chaplin. Among people deceased in 2015, Irwin Rose ranks 20. Before him are Omar Sharif, Kim Young-sam, Helmut Schmidt, Süleyman Demirel, Anita Ekberg, and Henning Mankell. After him are Yves Chauvin, Richard von Weizsäcker, Laura Antonelli, Dusty Rhodes, Josef Masopust, and Leonard Nimoy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irwin Rose ranks 525 out of 20,380. Before him are Talcott Parsons (1902), Stanford Moore (1913), Romina Power (1951), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911), and Louis Gossett Jr. (1936). After him are Dean Martin (1917), Herman Hollerith (1860), Jim Mattis (1950), David Morse (1953), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), and Richard Widmark (1914).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Irwin Rose ranks 8. Before him are George Beadle (1903), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Edward Tatum (1909), George Smith (1941), Barbara McClintock (1902), and Rachel Carson (1907). After him are Linda B. Buck (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), and Hermann Joseph Muller (1890).

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