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Ada Yonath

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Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; born 22 June 1939) 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. In 2009, Yonath 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ada Yonath is the 43rd most popular biologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Israel (up from 64th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Biologist.

Ada Yonath is most famous for being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 for her work in understanding the ribosome.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ada Yonath ranks 43 out of 1,097. Before her are Barbara McClintock, John Edward Gray, Rachel Carson, Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, and Karl von Frisch. After her are Richard Henderson, Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Tomas Lindahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ada Yonath ranks 16. Before her are Peter Grünberg, Giovanni Trapattoni, Amos Oz, Amanda Lear, Harvey Keitel, and Giovanni Falcone. After her are Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Reuven Rivlin, Margaret Atwood, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, James Fox, and Ralph Lauren.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 56 out of 466. Before her are Judas Maccabeus (-200), Daniel Kahneman (1934), Amos Oz (1939), Dinah (-1700), Herodias (-100), and Barabbas (1). After her are Ehud Olmert (1945), Ehud Barak (1942), Haggai (-550), James, son of Alphaeus (-10), Abijah of Judah (-1000), and Jehoiakim (-634).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Israel

Among biologists born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 1. After her are Aaron Ciechanover (1947), Ruth Arnon (1933), and Amotz Zahavi (1928).

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