}}. Dirige lo ''Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly'' del [[Weizmann Institute of Science]]. Nel 2009 è diventata la prima donna israeliana a vincere un premio Nobel<ref name="JPost1019">{{Cita news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=156872|titolo=Nobel Prize Winner 'Happy, Shocked'|cognome=Lappin|nome=Yaakov|data=2009-10-07|editore=Jerusalem Post|accesso=2009-10-07}}</ref>, la prima donna del [[Medio Oriente]] a vincere un premio Nobel<ref>Karin Klenke, [http://books.google.co.il/books?id=eJ16kb4sgS8C&pg=PA191&dq=Ada+Yonath+first+woman+from+the+middle+east&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=Ada%20Yonath%20first%20woman%20from%20the%20middle%20east&f=false Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries], Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, p. 191.</ref>, nonché la prima donna a vincere un premio Nobel per la chimica in 45 anni.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/yonath-telephone.html Interview], Ada E. Yonath, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009</ref>
