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Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
May 2, 2024 · Ada Yonath is an Israeli protein crystallographer who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with Indian-born American physicist and molecular biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz, for her research into the atomic structure and.
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Jun 22, 2011 · Ada E. Yonath. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. Born: 22 June 1939, Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) Affiliation at the time of the award: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Prize motivation: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
Ever since she was a girl, Ada Yonath has set herself seemingly impossible goals, and then figured out how to reach them, step by step. As a young scientist she took on a challenge that others considered hopeless – mapping the structure of the ribosome – and persevered for decades until she succeeded.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Ada Yonath is an exceptional biophysicist working as the director of Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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Prof. Yonath is the Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology. Ada Yonath's research is supported by the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly.
