"Israeli Biochemist" Nathan Sharon Hand Signed Album Page For Sale

Up for sale "Israeli Biochemist" Nathan Sharon Hand Signed Album Page. 

Sharon was born in 1925 in Brest-Litovsk, then in Poland (now Brest, Belarus). He emigrated to Mandate Palestine with

his family in 1934 and settled in Tel Aviv. Concurrent with his high school studies, Sharon

joined the Gadna military youth program in 1941, and following his

graduation from school, in 1943, he joined the Palmach, serving until 1945. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,

Sharon served in the Science Corps of the Israel Defense Forces,

attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel, and worked on the development of gas

flame throwers. Sharon

studied chemistry at the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem. In 1950, he graduated and, in 1953, he was awarded a

doctorate. In

1954, he joined the faculty of the Department for Biophysics at the Weizmann Institute of

Science, headed by professor Ephraim Katzir, where he became a professor in 1968. In 1974,

he was appointed head of the department, a position he held intermittently

until his retirement in 1990. He also served as dean of the Faculty of

Chemistry and Physics and was a visiting professor was also a member of the senate of the Open University of Israel and

a member of the counsel of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. He served as editor of "World of

Science" broadcast on Israel Radio, editor of the journal "Mada"

(Science) and science and technology editor of the Haaretz newspaper. He

was a leading figure in the research than fifty years.[1] He authored several seminal works on lectins and glycoconjugates, including the discovery of lectins, their

interactions with carbohydrates, and their subsequent use in laboratory

research and diagnostics. In

1992, he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and

Humanities. He

died on 17 June 2011 at the age of 85.