Ada Yonath

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Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Chemistry
chemist
crystallographer
human
structural biologist
academicDegree PhD in X-ray crystallography
awardReceived EMET Prize
Harvey Prize
Israel Prize
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
countryOfCitizenship Israel
dateOfBirth 1939-06-22
educatedAt Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Weizmann Institute of Science
employer Weizmann Institute of Science
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Yonath
fieldOfWork biochemistry
crystallography
structural biology
givenName Ada
influenced development of new antibiotics targeting the ribosome
knownFor pioneering ribosomal crystallography
ribosome structure research
studies of protein biosynthesis
languageSpoken English
Hebrew
memberOf European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
name Ada Yonath
NobelPrize.category Chemistry
NobelPrize.motivation studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
NobelPrize.year 2009
notableAchievement determination of high-resolution ribosome structures
first to crystallize large ribosomal subunits
notableStudent Harel Weinstein
placeOfBirth Jerusalem
positionHeld director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
professor
researchFocus antibiotic–ribosome interactions
mechanism of protein synthesis
ribosomal structure
sexOrGender female
workplace Weizmann Institute of Science


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