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Born August 11, 1926 • Lithuania
Died November 20, 2018 (aged 92) • (Anniversary in 7 days)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1985) • Nobel Prize (1982)
Subjects Of Study crystallography • nucleic acid • protein • virus • electron microscope

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Ada Yonath
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