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Ada Yonath

Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate

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born
1939
died
2026
age at death
87
known for
molecular biologist, chemist, university teacher

1939 – 2026

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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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