Ada Yonath: Quick Facts


Facts

Born June 22, 1939 • Jerusalem
Died August 31, 2026 (aged 87)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study RNA • endoplasmic reticulum • protein • ribosome

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William H. Stein
American biochemist
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Roger D. Kornberg
American chemist
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Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
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Stanford Moore
American biochemist
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Richard Henderson
British biologist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
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Avram Hershko
Israeli chemist