page_title: Ada Yonath
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caption_attribution_description: English: Prof. Ada E. Yonath; at Dept. of Computational Biology &amp; Bioinformatics, University of Kerala during her visit to Kerala in 2013 Feb.മലയാളം: പ്രൊഫ. അഡ ഇ. യോനാത്ത്; 2013 ഫെബ്രുവരിയില്‍ കേരളത്തിലേക്ക് നടത്തിയ യാത്രയില്‍ കേരള സര്‍വകലാശാലയുടെ കീഴിലുള്ള കംപ്യൂട്ടേഷണല്‍ ബയോളജി &amp; ബയോഇന്‍ഫര്‍മാറ്റിക്സ് വിഭാഗം സന്ദര്‍ശിച്ചപ്പോള്‍.
context_page_description: Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
  In 2009, Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of ten Israeli Nobel laureates, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
context_section_description: Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת‎, [ˈada joˈnat]) (born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
  In 2009, Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of ten Israeli Nobel laureates, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
caption: Yonath during her visit to Kerala in February 2013
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