Laureate

Ada E. Yonath

Born 1939 · Israel · Female

Awards

  1. 2006/2007

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

    Chemistry

    for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.

  2. 2009

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

    Chemistry

    for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome