[Reuters/Ha'aretz] Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot will share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing how the ribosome, which produces protein, functions at the atomic level, it was announced Wednesday. Yonath was the first Israeli biologist to work with NASA in sending research material to outer space. Her research contributed greatly to the development of more effective antibiotics, which can overcome the phenomenon of drug-resistant pathogens. Only three women have ever won the prize, the last one in 1964.
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