BIOLOGIST

Ada Yonath

1939 - Today

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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 391,117 page views. Her biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Ada Yonath is the 30th most popular biologist (up from 40th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Israel (up from 75th in 2019) 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

Among biologists, Ada Yonath ranks 30 out of 1,097. Before her are Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, Rachel Carson, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Theodor Schwann. After her are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, Charles Richet, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, and Harald zur Hausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ada Yonath ranks 15. Before her are Amos Oz, Amanda Lear, Reuven Rivlin, Giovanni Falcone, Giovanni Trapattoni, and Harvey Keitel. After her are Romano Prodi, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Karel Gott, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Lauren.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 64 out of 466. Before her are Barabbas (1), Baldwin III of Jerusalem (1130), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), Zedekiah (-617), Nehemiah (-490), and Isaac Herzog (1960). After her are Micah (-737), Ezer Weizman (1924), Rabbi Akiva (50), Uzziah (-900), Manasseh of Judah (-800), and Haggai (-550).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Israel

Among biologists born in Israel, Ada Yonath ranks 1. After her are Aaron Ciechanover (1947), Amotz Zahavi (1928), and Ruth Arnon (1933).

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