About Shlomo Hestrin
Lived 1914 – 1962 (aged 47–48). Shlomo Hestrin was a Canadian biochemist.
Shlomo Hestrin (; born 1914; died 2 February 1962) was an Israeli biochemist.
Biography Hestrin was born in 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He emigrated with his parents to then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, in 1932.
Awards In 1957, Hestrin was awarded the Israel Prize, in exact sciences, 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.
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Israeli biochemist
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Shlomo Hestrin died on 2 February 1962.
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Shlomo Hestrin was a biochemist.
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