Honorary Member
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Date of admittance: 10/06/2017
Prof. Ada Yonath
- (1939, Jerusalem, Israel).
- B.Sc. in Chemistry (1962), M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she developed her thesis on X-ray crystallography applied to collagen.
Academic Training
- Postdoctoral studies at the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh.
- Research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focused on globular proteins.
- Returned to the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she established the first protein crystallography laboratory in Israel.
Research Career
- Pioneer in deciphering the three-dimensional structure of the ribosome and understanding the mechanics of protein biosynthesis.
- Collaboration with H. G. Wittmann of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin.
- Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (1977–1978).
- Head of a research unit at DESY, Hamburg, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute (1986–2004).
- Developed the technique of cryo-biocristallography, today essential in structural biology.
- Her discoveries on the ribosome enabled advances in the design of more effective antibiotics against resistant bacteria.
Awards and Honors
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
- Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2006), with George Feher.
- L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (2008).
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2008).
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009), shared with Thomas Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
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