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Jun 22, 1939 Jerusalem, Israel 85 years old
Israeli biologist
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About Ada Yonath
- Ada E.
- Yonath (Hebrew: ??? ?????, pronounced ['ada jo'nat]) (born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome.
- She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A.
- Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A.
- Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of ten Israeli Nobel laureates, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
