Ada Yonath
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Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ada Yonath canonical | 5 |
| Ada E. Yonath | 2 |
| Yonath | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T591756 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ada Yonath Context triple: [L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, hasNotableLaureate, Ada Yonath]
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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B.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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C.
John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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D.
Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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E.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ada Yonath Target entity description: Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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A.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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B.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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C.
John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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D.
Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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E.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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chemist ⓘ crystallographer ⓘ human ⓘ structural biologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in X-ray crystallography ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
EMET Prize
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Harvey Prize ⓘ Israel Prize ⓘ L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science ⓘ
surface form:
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists) ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wolf Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-06-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
| employer | Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ada Yonath
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Yonath
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| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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crystallography ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Ada ⓘ |
| influenced | development of new antibiotics targeting the ribosome ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pioneering ribosomal crystallography
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ribosome structure research ⓘ studies of protein biosynthesis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
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| name | Ada Yonath self-link ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.category | Chemistry ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.motivation | studies of the structure and function of the ribosome ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.year | 2009 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
determination of high-resolution ribosome structures
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first to crystallize large ribosomal subunits ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Harel Weinstein ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
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professor ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
antibiotic–ribosome interactions
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mechanism of protein synthesis ⓘ ribosomal structure ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workplace | Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
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Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yonath
this entity surface form:
Ada E. Yonath
this entity surface form:
Ada E. Yonath