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(b. 1939)
A Jerusalem-born biochemist who moved to Tel Aviv in 1953, where she attended Tichon Hadash High School. She studied biochemistry and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received her PhD (magna cum laude) from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research interests have focused on the structure of crystals and proteins, with a specialization in the structure and function of ribosomes. For that work she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009. Yonath is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Art.
