Be inspired: on Wednesday, 24th April, by Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel laureate in chemistry, who will open the lecture series "Nobel laureates at TU Dresden" 2019: Ada Yonath ...

• is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the first female Nobel laureate in chemistry in 45 years.
• is the ninth Israeli to be awarded a Nobel Prize, and the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences.
• is the first Israeli biologist to work with NASA, sending research material into outer space.

Ribosomes, translation offices and protein factories in cells, have been the research focus of Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), the first “Nobel guest” at TU Dresden in 2019. Since the middle of the 20^th century, it has been known that the molecular complex reads out genetic information from RNA and builds proteins based on this protein blueprint. Yet, the atomic masterpiece of how it does that had been a puzzle for scientists for a long time, its decryption was a mile stone in biochemical research for which the Isreali structural biologist was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009, together with Thomas Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

Ada Yonath will hold her lecture on 24th April at 7 p.m. in the Audimax at the TU Dresden central lecture hall. The School of Science warmly welcomes all interested parties. Please register at: tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel