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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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountShared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for determining the structure and function of the ribosome, and was the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize. 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Israel, nationality there.
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1. Ada Yonath (Wikipedia)
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Ada Esther Lifshitz was born in the Geula quarter of Jerusalem on 22 June 1939.
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