| Ada E. Yonath Born: 22-Jun-1939
Birthplace: Jerusalem, Israel
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: Israel
Executive summary: Cryocrystallography Israeli biochemist Ada E. Yonath has studied ribosomes, large complex molecule that synthesizes protein, work which earned her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz). She was the first scientist to observe and unravel the internal architecture of a large ribosomal subunit, and she developed a new methodology called cryocrystallography or the "cryo technique", in which protein crystals are rapid-frozen to reduce radiation damage caused by previous X-ray crystallography methods. Daughter: Hagit Yonath (scientist)
High School: Tichon Hadash High School, Tel Aviv, Israel (1958)
University: BS Chemistry, Hebrew University (1962)
University: MS Biochemistry, Hebrew University (1964)
University: PhD Crystallography, Weizmann Institute of Science (1968)
Scholar: Biochemistrym Carnegie Mellon University (1968-69)
Scholar: Crystallography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969-70)
Scholar: Crystallography, Weizmann Institute of Science (1970-74)
Scholar: Crystallography, Mazer Center for Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science (1974-88)
Administrator: Director, Mazer Center for Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science (1988-2004)
Administrator: Director, Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science (1989-)
Administrator: Director, Structural Molecular Biology Unit, Max Planck Institute, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2000
National Academy of Sciences 2003
National Institutes of Health
European Crystallographic Association Max Perutz Prize 2000
Harvey Prize 2002
Israel Prize 2002
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2005
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2007
Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2007:(with George Feher)
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science 2008
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2009:(with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz)
Jewish Ancestry
Polish Ancestry
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