Arthur Horwich
Arthur Horwich · Science & Medicine
Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
1951, United States
United States (Yale School of Medicine)
Arthur Horwich is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Horwich, a biologist and physician at Yale, discovered in 1989 that proteins do not always fold unaided: he identified the chaperonins, barrel-shaped molecular machines that provide a protected chamber in which newly made proteins fold correctly. This overturned the textbook view of protein folding and illuminated diseases of misfolding, earning him the Lasker, Shaw and Breakthrough prizes. Horwich appears in specialist indexes of Jewish scientists; his published biographies describe his Chicago upbringing but do not detail his background.
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Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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