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- Ada Yonath, Israeli scientist, died at age 87, the Weizmann Institute announced Monday.
- Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her ribosome-structure research.
- She led the institute’s Ribosome Group and held the Institute Professor title, its highest rank.
- Her team produced the first ribosome crystals in 1980 after about 25,000 experiments.
- In 2000 her group and the Max Planck Institute mapped complete bacterial ribosome subunits, clarifying antibiotic binding.
