Ada Yonath
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 85 |
Date of birth | June 22,1939 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Geula |
Jerusalem | |
Residence | Israel |
Field | Crystallography |
Parents | Hillel Lifshitz |
Esther Lifshitz | |
Job | Biochemist |
Crystallographer | |
Education | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Awards | L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards |
Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | |
Albert Einstein World Award of Science | |
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize | |
Massry Prize | |
Israel Prize in Chemistry | |
Harvey Prize in Science and Technology | |
EMET Prize in Life Sciences | |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
Doctor advisor | Wolfie Traub |
Known for | Cryo bio-crystallography |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 457053 |
Ada Yonath Life story
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli chemist and Nobel laureate crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.