The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-07
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Affiliations:
- Weizmann Institute of Science – Rehovot, Israel
Ada E. Yonath
Born: 1939-06-22 in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Gender: female
Field: Israeli chemist (1939–2026)
Biography
Ada Esther Yonath was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.