Ada Yonath Quotes


I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.


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Yonath, Ada. "Interview with Ada E. Yonath." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 6 Dec. 2009.

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Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
  • Born: June 22, 1939
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Profession: Scientist

Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת‎, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.