Israeli woman scientist, Ada Yonath could be Nobel Chemistry prize winner
The pioneering work in understanding how cells build proteins could make the Israeli woman scientist, Ada Yonath, a strong candidate to win the Nobel Chemistry prize.
She could win the prize along with American George Feher. The two shared the Wolf Prize in Chemistry back in 2006.
Till date only three women have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The last woman to win this prize was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain for her work using “X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances” in 1964.
Other possible candidates include Americans Stuart Schreiber and Gerald Crabtree for research in chemical biology that has shed light on how tiny molecules can be used on cell circuits and signaling pathways.
If the prize committee considers to nanotechnology, Scottish chemist Sir James Fraser Stoddart could be a winner, possibly with Japan’s Sumio Iijima, who discovered carbon nanotubes in 1991.
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