Ada Yonath — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome.
Current Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Established Israel's first protein crystallography laboratory in 1970.
Obtained her PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1968 for X-ray crystallographic studies on collagen.
Graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in chemistry (1962) and a master's degree in biochemistry (1964).

Biography

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. In 2009, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome.