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Ada Yonath Gold
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
Ada Yonath was an Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026). Born 1939 in Jerusalem. Associated with University of Chicago, Weizmann Institut for Videnskab - Institut for Videnskabsundervisning.
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- Education
- Industries
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Career and education
SilverCareer
- University of Chicago
- Weizmann Institut for Videnskab - Institut for Videnskabsundervisning
Education
Public life
Gold- Born
- 1939-06-22, Jerusalem
- Died
- 2026-08-31
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Occupations
- molecular biologist, chemist, university teacher, crystallographer, biochemist, scientist, biologist
- Affiliations
- National Academy of Sciences, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, European Molecular Biology Organization, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Society of London
Achievements
SilverAwards
- Israel Prize 2002
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
- Harvey Prize 2002
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2007
- Wilhelm Exner Medal 2010
- Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2006
- L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science 2008
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2008
- Massry Prize 2004
- Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2005
- Silver Medal of the President of the Senate 2012
- X-ray badge 2014
- The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture 2006
- honorary doctor of Carnegie-Mellon University
- honorary doctor of the University of Chile
- Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin
- F. A. Cotton Medal 2002
- honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg
- EMBO Membership
- Esther Hoffman Beller Lectureship 2021
- Erna Hamburger Prize 2011
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2020
- Rothschild Prize
- Marie Curie Medal 2011
- honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University 2015
Profile
- Languages
- Hebrew, English
- Expertise
- crystallography, biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, ribosome, structural biology
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