The Most Famous

BIOLOGISTS from Israel

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This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 4 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 27th most number of Biologists behind India, and Chile.

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Biologists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Ada Yonath (b. 1939)

With an HPI of 68.27, Ada Yonath is the most famous Israeli Biologist.  Her biography has been translated into 79 different languages on wikipedia.

Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of ten Israeli Nobel laureates, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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2. Aaron Ciechanover (b. 1947)

With an HPI of 63.64, Aaron Ciechanover is the 2nd most famous Israeli Biologist.  His biography has been translated into 60 different languages.

Aaron Ciechanover ( AH-hə-ROHN chee-HAH-noh-vair; Hebrew: אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

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3. Amotz Zahavi (1928 - 2017)

With an HPI of 48.90, Amotz Zahavi is the 3rd most famous Israeli Biologist.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Amotz Zahavi (Hebrew: אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. His main work concerned the evolution of signals, particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty".

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4. Ruth Arnon (b. 1933)

With an HPI of 48.44, Ruth Arnon is the 4th most famous Israeli Biologist.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Ruth Arnon (Hebrew: רות ארנון [ʁut aʁ'non], born in Tel Aviv on June 1, 1933) is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She is currently the Paul Ehrlich Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she is researching anti-cancer and influenza vaccinations.

People

Pantheon has 4 people classified as Israeli biologists born between 1928 and 1947. Of these 4, 3 (75.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Israeli biologists include Ada Yonath, Aaron Ciechanover, and Ruth Arnon. The most famous deceased Israeli biologists include Amotz Zahavi.

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