Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
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, she 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...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 June 1939
CityGeula, Israel
CountryIsrael
There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.