01/11/2025
28 Aug 2013 •
Ada E. Yonath
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009
Ada Yonath, graduated the Hebrew University, earned Ph.D. from Weizmann Institute (WIS) and postdoced at Mellon Institute and MIT. In the seventies she established the first laboratory for protein crystallography in Israel, the only laboratory of this kind in the country for almost a decade. Since the eighties she is WIS Kimmel Professor and the Director of Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly. In parallel, during 1986-2004 she headed the Max-Planck-Research-Unit for Ribosome Structure in Hamburg, Germany.
She is a member of several academies, including US National Academy; Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities; Korean Academy for Science & Technology;
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). She holds honorary doctorates from almost all Israeli Universities; KEK, Japan; Oslo U; NYU and Mount Sinai Universities; Hamburg University; Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Her awards include the Israel Prize; the Paul Karrer Gold Medal; Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize; Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Medal; Linus Pauling Gold Medal; Anfinsen Prize; Wolf Prize; Massry Award; UNESCO/L'Oreal Award for Women in Science; Albert Einstein World Award for Excellence; Erice Peace Prize; Indian PM Gold medal; President of Panama Award; Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medal; Cite of Florence Prize; Datta Medal; The Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
