Ada Yonath
b. 1939 · Israel · Chemistry, Biology
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009
Mapped the ribosome, the cell's protein factory and antibiotic target.
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Inherited from1
- Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 – 1994 · Chemistry
Hodgkin's protein crystallography is the method Yonath extended to the ribosome.
Passed the work to1
- Jennifer Doudna
1964 · Chemistry, Biology
Ribosome structures established the RNA-machine picture CRISPR engineering assumes.
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