Ada Yonath is an Israelicrystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. Born in Jerusalem, she is the Martin A. Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute. Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ... Figure 1: Ribosome structure indicating small subunit (A) and large subunit (B). ... Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: القدس al-Quds; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ... The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע) is an institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel. ...
In 2000, Yonath was the recipient of the first European Crystallography Prize. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
· A. Yonath, A. Sielecki, J. Moult, A. Podjarny and W. Traub, Crystallographic studies of protein denaturation and renaturation.
· J. Moult, A. Yonath, W. Traub, A. Smilansky, A. Podjarny, D. Rabinovich and A. Saya, The structure of triclinic lysozyme at 2-5 A resolution, J Mol Biol, 100, 179-95 (1976)
Smilansky and A. Yonath, Binding of divalent copper ions to aspartic acid residue 52 in hen egg- white lysozyme, J Mol Biol, 87, 357-68 (1974)
Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at UCSC, and AdaYonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovat, Israel, have been awarded the 2004 Massry Prize.
The researchers were recognized for their groundbreaking research on the structure and function of the ribosome.
The award honors the independent work of Noller and Yonath to reveal the atomic-level workings of ribosomes and how they function to decode the genetic information and synthesize all the proteins found in cells.
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