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Date of birth
Lived in jerusalem with her familiy. -
Lost her father
Her father,Hillel Lifshitz, died at the age of 42. -
Moved to Tel-Aviv and began learning in Tichon Hadash
Her mother could not pay the tuition so she gave math lessons to students. -
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1962. -
Master's degree in biochemistry
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Ph.D
She obtained her Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science for X-ray crystallographic studies on the structure of collagen. -
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Postdoctoral researcher
Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Open her lab
She established what was for nearly a decade the only protein crystallography laboratory in Israel. -
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Researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science
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Visiting professor
She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago -
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Leading role
Was a group leader with Heinz-Günter Wittmann at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin -
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Research unit
She headed a Max-Planck Institute Research Unit at DESY in Hamburg, Germany in parallel to her research activities at the Weizmann Institute. -
Israel prize
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Harvey prize
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massry prize
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Paul Karrer gold medal
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Horvitz prize
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Wolf prize in Chemistry
Along with George Feher -
Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences
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The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture in Life Sciences
along with Professor Peretz Lavie (Medicine) and Professor Eli Keshet (Biology) -
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Along with Harry Noller -
Albert Einstein World Award of Science
For her pioneering contributions to protein biosynthesis in the field of ribosomal crystallography and her introduction of innovative techniques in cryo bio-crystallography -
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
co-recipient with Thomas Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.She was the first Israeli woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize -
Wilhelm Exner Medal
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Ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Professor Yonath was named an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis. -
Honorary Doctorate
From the De La Salle University, Manila/Philippines, from the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble/France, the Medical University, Lodz/Poland and from the University of Warwick, UK. -
Doctor Honoris Causa
She was awarded title of Medical University of Lodz.