lit a candle 3 Sept 2026My dad introduced me to Ada's work when I was a kid. We talked about it for hours. Today I'm thinking of both of them.
Their story
Ada Esther Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; née Lifshitz; 22 June 1939 – 31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center…
Ada Esther Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; née Lifshitz; 22 June 1939 – 31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the 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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia ↗
Photos
3Photograph of Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist and 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, taken at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA, January 16
by People Forever
Ada Yonath
by People Forever
Nobel Prize 2009, press conference with the laureates at the KVA: Ada Yonath.
by People Forever
Sending love from the States.
Same here. Exactly this.