The Open University will award the title of honorary fellow to Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering contribution to the development of chemistry and structural biology in general and the research of ribosomes in particular.
Reasons of the Open University Council: "We are honored to award the title of honorary fellow to Prof. Ada Yonat in recognition of her life's work as a scientist with extraordinary achievements in science, for her highly influential contribution to knowledge and scientific study and to all aspects of scientific research, for nurturing new generations of young researchers, experts in the field, in her roles as a professor in the Department of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and as a visiting scientist at the best universities in the world; For her contribution to the advancement of science worldwide as a member of the US Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Israeli Academy of Sciences, the Israeli Council for Higher Education, and the National Advisory Committee for the Vision of Science. Prof. Yonat served, among other things, as a consultant for the development of biochemistry courses at the Open University.
The president of the Open University, Prof. Hagit Messer-Yeron: "The choice to award an honorary fellow title to Prof. Ada Yonat stems first and foremost from her international achievements and her significant contribution to the development of science in Israel. Prof. Yonat, the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize, proves to all of us that women, no less than men, can achieve impressive achievements and international recognition. The uniqueness of the Open University in the landscape of higher education as a gender-balanced academic body throughout its years of existence creates a natural connection with the number one scientist in Israel."
The event will be held as part of the "Open University Graduate and University Certificates" awarding ceremony on Thursday, June 2.6.11, 19, at 30:1 p.m., at the Dorothy de Rothschild Open University Kiryat, University Road 108 (XNUMX Rabotsky St.), Ra'anana.
