“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer. She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, a prize she shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz. At the time of the award, she was affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science.
- Field
- Chemistry · Biochemistry
- Lifespan
- 1939–2026