Sara Hestrin-Lerner Explained

Sara Hestrin-Lerner
Birth Date:May 18, 1918
Birth Place:Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Death Date:November 18, 2017
Nationality:Israeli
Alma Mater:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation:Physiologist

Sara Hestrin-Lerner (Hebrew: שרה הסטרין-לרנר) (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.[1] She died in November 2017 at the age of 99.[2]

Awards

In 1955, Hestrin-Lerner was awarded the Israel Prize, for medical science.[3] Hestrin-Lerner's brother, Shlomo Hestrin, was also awarded the Israel Prize, in exact sciences, in 1957.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Hestrin-Lerner. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
  2. http://www.kadisha.biz/ShowItem.aspx?levelId=59689&template=18&ID=555581 Sara Hestrin-Lerner death notice
  3. Web site: Israel Prize recipients in 1955 (in Hebrew) . cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120612102601/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashtav . June 12, 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1957 (in Hebrew).