She discovered after decades of studies, together with other colleagues, the atomic structure of the ribosome, the “molecular machine” that produces proteins in cells and for this, in 2009, he received the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 5 pm, in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, the Israeli scientist Ada Yonath will receive the award “City of Florence 2011” on Molecular Science, the prestigious award was born in Florence on the initiative of the Italian Chemical Society, the Sacconi Foundation, the Center for Magnetic Resonance (CERM), University of Florence, the Ente Cassa di Firenze and Banca CR Firenze.
The City of Florence Award on Molecular Sciences is in its tenth edition and is considered among the most prestigious Italian awards, as demonstrated by past winners (www.cerm.unifi.it/premio-citta-di-firenze/premio-citta-di- florence). Ada Yonath has studied biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Jerusalem, and then conducted research at MIT in Cambridge (USA), the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh (USA) and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg before returning to the institute Weiznann Israel.
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