What is Ada Yonath?
[[File:Ada E. Yonath.jpg|thumb|Ada Yonath.]]'''Ada E. Yonath''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: עדה יונת , born June 22, 1939) is an [[Israel|Israeli]] [[crystallography|crystallographer]]. She received the 2009 [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Chemistry]] together with [[Thomas A. Steitz]] and [[Venkatraman Ramakrishnan]] for studies of the structure and functions of [[Ribosome|ribosomes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/yonath-facts.html |title=Ada E. Yonath - Facts|website=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> ==Life== ===Early life=== She was born in the Geula quarter of [[Jerusalem]]. Her father was a [[rabbi]]. Yonath and her family moved to [[Tel Aviv]] after her father died. ===Education=== She received her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1962. She received her master's degree in biochemistry in 1964. She got both degrees from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]] in [[Jerusalem]]. She received her Ph.D. in [[X-ray crystallography|X-Ray Crystallography]] at the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] in 1968. Yonath made the first [[protein]] [[crystallography]] lab at the Weizmann Institute. Her work showed the function of [[ribosomes]]. Yonath worked at [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie-Mellon University]] and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] for several years. She stayed as Weizmann Institute for the rest of her career. ==Work== Ada Yonath is an [[Israel|Israeli]] [[chemist]] who made pictures of ribosomes with [[X-ray crystallography]]. Ribosomes are the part of cells in the [[human body]] that put together proteins. X-ray crystallography makes pictures of [[Molecule|molecules]] by bunching them into [[Crystal|crystals]]. This method is only used to make models of single [[Atom|atoms]]. Yonath used this methods to crystallize ribosomes despite them being made up of many atoms and proteins. This caused her work to become very difficult. She returned to the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1970. She started the first Protein Crystallography lab