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I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
Ada Yonath /
Reporters
Rid
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Aggressive
Manner
Solved
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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Fill
Stadium
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
Ada Yonath /
Basic Research
Glad
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Forming
Simultaneously
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
Ada Yonath /
Foundation
Gratitude
Honor
Nobel
Sincere
Great Me Honor
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Chance
Curiosity
High Level
Inquiry
Then
Attain
High
Level
Scientific
Stands
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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My Time
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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Simultaneous
Degraded
Proteins
Required
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I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
Ada Yonath /
Irrelevant
Men And Women
Women Men Me
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Neighborhood
Prevent
Progressing
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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Teacher Me School
Encouraged
Grant
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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Anything And Everything
Boycott
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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Code
Genetic
Instructions
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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Determine
Plans
Structure
Frequently
Initial
Verb
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
Ada Yonath /
Angry
Friends And Family
Jails
Terrorists
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
Ada Yonath /
Class
Depends
Function
Typical
Cell
Different Types
Number
Proteins
Types
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
Ada Yonath /
Administrative
Institute
Tasks
Require
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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.
Ada Yonath /
Jerusalem
Additional
Shared
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Ada Yonath /
Born
Jerusalem
Poor
Rabbi
Religious
Background
Father Born I Was Born
Did
Books
Rather
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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.
Ada Yonath /
Medical
Childhood
Conditions
Constant
Desire
Memories
Principles
Alongside
Centered
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
Ada Yonath /
Work
Care
Convincing
Dreamer
Idiot
Village
Work Me Care
Go
Allow
Even
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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Neighborhood
Poland
Rabbi
Ran
Zionist
Grocery
Grocery Store
Store
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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Competitors
Laughed
Prove
Supportive
World Me Look
Look World Me
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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Clever
Code
Dna
Letters
Amino
Forms
Proteins
Reads
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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Conquer
Female
Scientist
Thinking
Male
Carry
Woman
Experiment
Walk
Lab
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
Ada Yonath /
Academic
Articles
Discrimination
Journal
Science Me Feel
Produced
Quite A While
Receive
Status
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath /
Another Time
Broke
Faster
Height
Smoke
Arm
Balcony
Calculate
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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.
Ada Yonath /
Custody
Definitions
Terrorist
Unclear
Criminal
Jails
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ada Yonath /
Medical
Army
Compulsory
Exposed
Fortunate
Hebrew
Issues
Jerusalem
Office
Secret
University
After
Clinical
Enrolled
Forces
Service
Spent
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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.
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Institute
Outstanding
Protein
Shed
Concerning
Researcher
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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.
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Cleaning
Conditions
Dishes
Sandwiches
Standards
Survival
Washing
Floors
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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.
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Active
Activity
Advantage
Bacteria
Conditions
Institute
Robust
Preserve
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
Ada Yonath /
Newton
Accident
Apple
Implication
Practical
Purely
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
Ada Yonath /
Academy
Foreign Affairs
Hotel
Ministry
Secretary
Stockholm
Swedish
Waiting
Affairs
Arrive
Assistant
Laureate
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People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
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Ceremony
Figures
Obsessed
Senior
Surprising
Me Free People
Aspects
Haircut
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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
Ada Yonath /
Antibiotics
Application
Code
Conquer
Everest
Half
Humanity
Mount Everest
Protein
Target
Useful
Contribute
Genetic
Mount
Reveal
Translated
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