Ada Yonath
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Biography
Ada Yonath is focusing on protein biosynthesis and the antibiotics hampering it. In the seventies she established the first structural-biology laboratory in Israel. She is the Director of Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure. During 1986-2004 she was the Head of Max-Planck Research Unit for Ribosome Structure in Hamburg. She is a Member of US National Academy of Sciences, Israel Academy, German Science Academy and Pontificia Accademia-delle-Scienze (Vatican). She holds honorary Doctorates from Oslo, NYU, Mount-Sinai, Oxford, Cambridge, Hamburg, Berlin-Technical, Patras, De-La-Salle, Xiamen, Lodz universities. Her awards include the Israel Prize, Louisa-Gross-Horwitz Prize, Linus-Pauling Gold Medal, Wolf-Prize, UNESCO/L’Oreal Award, Albert-Einstein World Award for Excellence and Nobel Prize for Chemistry.