Ada Yonath
Israeli crystallographer and biochemist
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and... Wikipedia
Born: 1939 (age 84 years), Geula, Jerusalem
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970), Weizmann Institute of Science, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known for: Cryo bio-crystallography
Parents: Hillel Lifshitz and Esther Lifshitz