A blog site managed by the UVM Womxn in STEM Network Highlighting the Work of UVM STEM Students and Historical Women Scientists

Ada Yonath

Dr. Ada Yonath is known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome, in which she won the 2009 Nobel Prize Award for, and developing a crystallography technique known as cryocrystallography.1 Yonath describes her childhood memories as “centered on my father’s medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the …

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