Nahum Sonenberg date of birth:
December 29, 1946
How old is Nahum Sonenberg?
78
Where was Nahum Sonenberg born?
Wetzlar, Germany
Nahum Sonenberg body shape:
Average
What color are Nahum Sonenberg's eyes?
Blue
What color is Nahum Sonenberg's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Nahum Sonenberg gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Nahum Sonenberg?
Jewish
What is Nahum Sonenberg's ethnicity?
White
What is Nahum Sonenberg nationality?
Israeli
What is Nahum Sonenberg's occupation?
Biologist
Short Biography
Nahum Sonenberg, OC FRS FRSC (Hebrew: נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was an HHMI international research scholar from 1997 to 2011 and is now a senior international research scholar. He is best known for his seminal contributions to our understanding of translation, and notable for the discovery of the mRNA 5' cap-binding protein, eIF4E, the rate-limiting component of the eukaryotic translation apparatus.