About Sara Hestrin-Lerner
Lived 1918 – 2017 (aged 99). Sara Hestrin-Lerner was a Canadian and Israeli biologist, pathologist, zoologist and physiologist.
Sara Hestrin-Lerner (; May 18, 1918 – November 18, 2017) was a Canadian-born Israeli physiologist.
Biography Hestrin-Lerner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in May 1918. Aged 14, she emigrated with her parents to the then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) in 1932. She studied zoology and received her doctorate in pathological physiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She died in November 2017 at the age of 99.
Awards In 1955, Hestrin-Lerner was awarded the Israel Prize, for medical science. Hestrin-Lerner's brother, Shlomo Hestrin, was also awarded the Israel Prize, in exact sciences, in 1957.
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Israeli physiologist
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Sara Hestrin-Lerner was born on 1 May 1918 in Winnipeg.
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Sara Hestrin-Lerner died on 18 November 2017.
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Sara Hestrin-Lerner was a biologist, pathologist, zoologist and physiologist.
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Sara Hestrin-Lerner was Canadian and Israeli.
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