Yonath, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, was the first to uncover the ribosome's complete structure, despite years of skepticism from fellow scientists who dismissed her research as unrealistic

The 2009 chemistry laureate transformed scientists’ understanding of the ribosome and helped reveal how antibiotics work, paving the way for new approaches to combating…

Professor Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 and the Israel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. She was born in Jerusalem and worked at Weizmann Institute of Science,…