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Ada Yonath Quotes

Israeli - Scientist | June 22, 1939 -

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

Family Children Born Poor Apartment

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

Nature Father Memories Medical Me

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Light Process End Questions Plan

Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

Production Being Proteins Constantly

Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

Act Along Many Forming

Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

Words Die Plans Structure Used Were

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Integrity I Am Me Research Done Way

The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

Product Order Genetic Machine Code

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

Time Men Competition Difficult Years

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Life Age Science Struggle Game Name

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Women Men Me Think Men And Women

Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

Me Hands Blood Sitting Without Call

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