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Yonath, Ada E. was born in 1939 in Jerusalem.
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Ada E. Yonath
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Ada E. Yonath, Israeli crystallographer, educator. Achievements include being the pioneer of ribosome crystallography; created the first ribosome crystals in 1980. Member of American Academy Arts & Sciences, International Academy Astronautics, European Molecular Biology Organization, European Academy Sciences and Art, Israeli Academy Sciences and Humanities, National Academy of Sciences, Israeli Crystallographic Society (honorary).
Education
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1962. Master of Science in Biochemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in X-ray Crystallography, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1968.
Doctorate (honorary), Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 2002. Doctorate (honorary), Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2003. Doctorate (honorary), Oxford University, England, 2008.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, 1969. Postdoctoral fellow department chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1970. Scientist department chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, 1970—1974, senior scientist department structural chemistry, 1974—1983, associate professor department structural chemistry, 1984—1988, Martin S. and Helen Kimmel professor, department structural biology, since 1988, director Joseph & Ceil Mazer Center for Structural Biology, 1988—2004, director Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assemblies, since 1989.
Lecturer Tel-Aviv and Ben Gurion University, Israel, 1971—1978. Head Max-Planck Research Unit, Hamburg, Germany, 1986—2004. Consultant Open University, Israel, 1971—1977.
Visiting scientist University Alabama Dental School, 1974. Visiting scientist biophysics University Chicago, 1977—1978. Visiting professor University Austral Chile, Valdivia, 1978, Max-Planck Institute Molecular Genetics, Berlin, 1979—1983.
Chairperson department structural chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, 1989—1990, chairperson department structural biology, 1992—1994. Lecturer in the field.
Achievements
Membership
Member of American Academy Arts & Sciences, International Academy Astronautics, European Molecular Biology Organization, European Academy Sciences and Art, Israeli Academy Sciences and Humanities, National Academy of Sciences, Israeli Crystallographic Society (honorary).
Awards
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Recipient Somach Sachs award, Outstanding Work in Biochemistry, 1974, Kolthof award, Outstanding Research in Chemistry, Haifa, Israel, 1990, 1st European Crystallography prize, Nancy, France, 2000, Kilby International award, United States of America, 2000, Certified of Distinction, National Institutes of Health, United States of America, 2000, Field Artillery Cotton medal, United States of America Chemical Society, 2002, Israel prize, Chemical Research, 2002, Harvey prize, Natural Sciences, Technion, Israel, 2002, Medal of Distinction, Israeli Chemical Society, 2003, Anfinsen prize, Protein Society, Boston, United States of America, 2003, Paul Karrer Gold medal, Zurich, Switzerland, 2004, Massry Foundation International award and medal for Ribosome Research, 2004, Louisa Gross Horwitz prize, Columbia University, 2005, Rothschild prize for Life Sciences, 2006, Israel Prime Minister EMET award, 2006, Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter medal, Germany, 2007, Wolf prize in chemistry, Israel, 2007, Linus Pauling Gold medal, Stanford, United States of America, 2008, George E. Palade Gold medal, Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, 2008, L'Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization award for Women in Science in Life Science, Paris, 2008, Albert Einstein World award for Science, Princeton University, New Jersey, 2008, Nobel prize in chemistry, 2009.Recipient Somach Sachs award, Outstanding Work in Biochemistry, 1974, Kolthof award, Outstanding Research in Chemistry, Haifa, Israel, 1990, 1st European Crystallography prize, Nancy, France, 2000, Kilby International award, United States of America, 2000, Certified of Distinction, National Institutes of Health, United States of America, 2000, Field Artillery Cotton medal, United States of America Chemical Society, 2002, Israel prize, Chemical Research, 2002, Harvey prize, Natural Sciences, Technion, Israel, 2002, Medal of Distinction, Israeli Chemical Society, 2003, Anfinsen prize, Protein Society, Boston, United States of America, 2003, Paul Karrer Gold medal, Zurich, Switzerland, 2004, Massry Foundation International award and medal for Ribosome Research, 2004, Louisa Gross Horwitz prize, Columbia University, 2005, Rothschild prize for Life Sciences, 2006, Israel Prime Minister EMET award, 2006, Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter medal, Germany, 2007, Wolf prize in chemistry, Israel, 2007, Linus Pauling Gold medal, Stanford, United States of America, 2008, George E. Palade Gold medal, Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, 2008, L'Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization award for Women in Science in Life Science, Paris, 2008, Albert Einstein World award for Science, Princeton University, New Jersey, 2008, Nobel prize in chemistry, 2009.