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Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate
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dead
- born
- 1939
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 87
- known for
- molecular biologist, chemist, university teacher
1939 β 2026

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who ada yonath is
Ada Esther Yonath was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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