Ada Yonath is an Israeli Jewish crystallographer who grew up in poverty in Yerushalayim and went on to map the structure of the ribosome — the molecular machine that builds every protein in every living cell.
Her work revolutionized the design of antibiotics.
She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 — the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize and only the fourth woman ever to win one in Chemistry.
A daughter of Yerushalayim mapped the machinery of life itself.
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