Ada Yonath

Continues research on ribosomes and antibiotic resistance.

Elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science.

Awarded the EMET Prize in Chemistry.

Awarded the Israel Prize in Chemistry.

Determined the first complete high-resolution structure.

Became the Director of the Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure.

Appointed as a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Worked as visiting professor at University of Chicago.

Established a ribosome research lab in Hamburg, Germany.

Began postdoctoral work at MIT.

Received a Ph.D. in X-ray Crystallography from the Weizmann Institute.

Earned a M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Obtained a B.A. in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ada Yonath was born in Jerusalem.