Ada Yonath
Scientist
1939-06-22
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate known for research on ribosome structure.
Quotes by Ada Yonath
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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