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| complete name: |
Ada Yonath |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
2009 |
| together with: |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
| together with: |
Thomas A. Steitz |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Ada |
| family name: |
Yonath |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
pedagogue |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
molecular biologist |
| field of work: |
crystallography |
| work location: |
University of Chicago, 5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States of America |
| description: |
Ada Yonath 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. |
| pronunciation: |
(Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]) |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1939 |
| usual name: |
Ada Yonath |
