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Ada Yonath
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Person

Ada Yonath

1939 – 2026 · aged 87

Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)

Born
22 Jun 1939 · Jerusalem
Died
31 Aug 2026
Part ofIsrael1,457 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 22 Jun 1939BornBorn in Jerusalem
  2. 2002AwardF. A. Cotton Medal
  3. 2002AwardHarvey Prize
  4. 2002AwardIsrael Prize
  5. 2004AwardMassry Prize
  6. 2005AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  7. 2006AwardThe EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture
  8. 2006AwardWolf Prize in Chemistry
  9. 2007AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  10. 2008AwardAlbert Einstein World Award of Science
  11. 2008AwardL'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science
  12. 2009AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  13. 2010AwardWilhelm Exner Medal
  14. 31 Aug 2026DiedDied

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1939 – 2026).

  1. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  2. 1939 – 1945World War II
  3. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  4. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  5. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  6. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  7. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  8. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  9. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  10. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  12. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  13. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  15. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  16. 1956Suez Crisis
  17. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  19. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  23. 1968Prague Spring
  24. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  25. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  26. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  27. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  29. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  30. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  31. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  32. 1985Schengen Agreement
  33. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  34. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  35. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  37. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  39. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan

Biography

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.

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