Ada E. Yonath, PhD, is an Israeli crystallographer. She, along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize, and was the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She earned her PhD in 1968 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After studying at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, she returned to the Weizmann Institute in 1970 and established the first biological crystallography laboratory in Israel. She is currently the director of Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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