Ada E. Yonath was an Israeli crystallographer, director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly at the Weizmann Institute of Science, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was awarded a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and became the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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Ada Esther Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; née Lifshitz; 22 June 1939 – 31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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Ada Esther Lifshitz was born in the Geula quarter of Jerusalem on 22 June 1939.
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Ada Esther Yonath (, ; ; 22 June 1939-31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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