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Ada Yonath is an Israeli chemist who conducted pioneering research on the structure of ribosomes, the cellular machines that produce proteins in all living organisms. Her work revealed how ribosomes function at the atomic level, fundamentally advancing our understanding of life itself and earning her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2009
“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ada
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Jerusalem
- Occupation
- scientist
- Educated at
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- structural biology
- Image
- Ada Yonath.jpg
- Work location
- Weizmann Institute of Science
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- Commons category
- Ada E. Yonath
- date of birth
- 1939-06-22
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- influenced by
- William Lipscomb
- IPA transcription
- ˈada joˈnat
- interested in
- crystallography
- birth name
- Ada Livšic
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Encyclopedic overview
Ada E. Yonath
Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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