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Ada Yonath
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 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.
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Born 22 June 1939 · Q7426
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
NDTV: NDTV Exclusive With Israeli Nobel Prize Winner Ada Yonath
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Was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Technion
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2023· 1 entry
Was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Jagiellonian University
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2022· 1 entry
WeLiveSecurity: Life in pursuit of answers: In the words of Ada Yonath
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Esther Hoffman Beller Lectureship (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2020).
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Was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
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2018· 1 entry
Was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University (2015).
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Israeli Ada Yonath plantea desarrollar un farmaco para cada enfermedad
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Was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Southern California, the De La Salle University, Manila/Philippines; the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble/France; the Medical University of Lodz, Lodz/Poland;
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded X-ray badge (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Yahoo: Ada Yonath and the Female Question
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Became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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2012· 1 entry
Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2012).
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2011· 3 entries
Won Marie Curie Medal (2011).
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Awarded Erna Hamburger Prize (2011).
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Marie Curie Medal awarded by the Polish Chemical Society
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2010· 2 entries
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (2010).
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Medicine Buffalo: Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, to Visit UB and HWI
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2009· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
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AI Alarabiya: Yonath, first Israeli woman to win Nobel Prize
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009).
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (co-recipient with Thomas Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan)
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Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2008).
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Awarded Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2008).
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The Albert Einstein World Award of Science for her pioneering contributions to protein biosynthesis in the field of ribosomal crystallography and her introduction of innovative techniques in cryo bio-crystallography
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2007).
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Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize along with Harry Noller
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2006).
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Awarded The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2006).
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Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with George Feher
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The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture in Life Sciences, along with Professor Peretz Lavie (Medicine) and Professor Eli Keshet (Biology)
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Massry Prize (2004).
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2002· 3 entries
Won F. A. Cotton Medal (2002).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (2002).
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Awarded Israel Prize (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
And 2001, she determined the complete high-resolution structures of both ribosomal subunits and discovered within the otherwise asymmetric ribosome, the universal symmetrical region that provides the framework and naviga
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1993· 1 entry
Visualized the path taken by the nascent proteins, namely the ribosomal tunnel, and recently revealed the dynamics elements enabling its involvement in elongation arrest, gating, intra-cellular regulation and nascent
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1970· 1 entry
Established what was for nearly a decade the only protein crystallography laboratory in Israel
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1968· 1 entry
Obtained her PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science for X-ray crystallographic studies on the structure of collagen, with Wolfie Traub as her PhD advisor
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1962· 1 entry
And a master's degree in biochemistry in 1964
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-06-22.
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