Irwin Rose

Irwin A. Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. He was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. He was married to Zelda Budenstein and had four children.
Rose died on June 2, 2015 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, aged 88.