Ada Yonath Scientist

Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת‎, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]) (born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of ten Israeli Nobel laureates, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. However, she said herself that there was nothing special about a woman winning the Prize.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 22, 1939
Birth name	Ada Lifshitz
Birth place	Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Israel
Residence	Israel
Education	Weizmann Institute of Science Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known for	Cryo bio-crystallography

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awards	Albert Einstein World Award of Science Wolf Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Harvey Prize