1939 - Today
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ada Yonath has received more than 362,306 page views. Her biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Ada Yonath is the 40th most popular biologist, the 77th most popular biography from Israel and the most popular Israeli Biologist.
Ada Yonath is most famous for being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 for her work in understanding the ribosome.
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Among biologists, Ada Yonath ranks 40 out of 841. Before her are Harald zur Hausen, Albrecht Kossel, Karl von Frisch, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Christian de Duve, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. After her are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Richard Owen, Nikolaas Tinbergen, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, August Weismann, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden.
1936 - 2023
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 34
1853 - 1927
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 35
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 36
1729 - 1799
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 37
1917 - 2013
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 38
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 39
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 40
1787 - 1869
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 41
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 42
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 43
1683 - 1757
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 44
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 45
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 46
Among people born in 1939, Ada Yonath ranks 21. Before her are Reuven Rivlin, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jackie Stewart, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Karel Gott, and Richard Kiel. After her are Ralph Lauren, F. Murray Abraham, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Sonny Chiba, Clay Regazzoni, and Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 15
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 16
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1939 - 1993
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 18
1939 - 2019
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 19
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 20
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 21
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 22
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 23
1939 - 2001
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 24
1939 - 2021
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 25
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 26
1939 - 2002
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 27
Among people born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 77 out of 430. Before her are Uzziah (-900), Annas (-22), Ehud Olmert (1945), Simeon (null), Jehoash of Judah (-843), and Rabbi Akiva (50). After her are Penitent thief (-18), Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (1105), Baldwin III of Jerusalem (1130), Cyril of Jerusalem (313), Ahaziah of Judah (-900), and Amaziah of Judah (-802).
900 BC - 900 BC
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 71
22 BC - 66
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 72
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 73
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 74
843 BC - 797 BC
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 75
50 - 136
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 76
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 77
18 BC - 30
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 78
1105 - 1161
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 79
1130 - 1163
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 80
313 - 386
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 81
900 BC - 842 BC
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 82
802 BC - 776 BC
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 83
Among biologists born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 1. After her are Aaron Ciechanover (1947), Amotz Zahavi (1928), and Ruth Arnon (1933).
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 1
1947 - Present
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 2
1928 - 2017
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 3
1933 - Present
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 4