Feminists Laud First Woman To Win Chemistry Prize in 45 Years

Just kidding.

But a Mazal Tov Gadol! to Israeli scientist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot... nonetheless.

Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, as well as American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz, were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for mapping ribosomes, the protein-producing factories within cells, at the atomic level.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotic cures for various diseases....

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu... spoke with Yonath, saying, "I feel deeply proud. The Nobel Prize is humanity's real Olympics."

"Such contributions to science and academia have characterized the Jewish nation and the state of Israel for many years," he added.

Yonath is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the prize.

I just hope the Swedish palace has to break out the kosher dishes again:)

....The king insisted that the china, silverware and crystal for the Aumann entourage be identical to those of everyone else. Since the palace buys new dishes every year to make up for breakage, the Aumanns received the new dishes, so the tableware was kosher.

The royal family also insisted that the kosher meal look exactly like what everyone else was served. To this end the royal chef revealed the menu, kept secret until the banquet day, to the kosher cooks so together they could find look-alike substitutes for the non-kosher menu, which included crayfish with fennel-baked Arctic char, scallops and Norwegian lobster on baby lettuce, ptarmigan (grouse) breast baked in horn of plenty mushrooms with caramelized apples and lemon and yogurt mousse with raspberry-Arctic bramble sauce. In addition, there were three different Carmel wines: sparkling, red and dessert, matching the nonkosher selection.

Another strict rule is that all men must dress in formal black tailcoats, with white bowties and waistcoats; even the seven-year-old grandsons wore white ties and tails, cufflinks and shirt studs— an interesting contrast with their festive knitted kippot! Women must wear solidcolor floor-length gowns (no problem for the modestly attired Aumanns), and though the only head covering forwomen usually allowed are tiaras for royalty and married women, they did allow the... headscarves of the Aumann women.

Every year all male participants rent formal attire in Stockholm. With foresight, the Aumanns had a sample of the formalwear flown to Israel to check for shatnez; it turned out that the tailcoats had the Biblically forbidden wool-and-linen mixture. The Aumanns solved this problem by renting shatnez-free formalwear from an Israeli rental agency and having it flown to Stockholm for the ceremony.

.... While the Nobel Prize comes with a sizeable monetary gift, the most meaningful present was the watch that Professor Aumann’s children and grandchildren gave him to replace his own ancient ten-dollar timepiece. On it they engraved a verse from parashat Vayeitzei, which was read that memorable Shabbat, December 10,

“Venivrechu vecha kol mishpechot ha’adamah uvezarecha ~ And all the families of the earth shall be blessed through you and your offspring” . . . .

 

Amen.

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[Soft Cialis]

What are the titles of the Chemistry Nobel Prize winning projects of 1937? I need to know the title of Haworth and Kenner's projects that won them the 1937 Nobel prize in Chem. If you could tell me why they won and a summary of the poject I would love you forever. Just a link on where to find the information would be wonderful. Thank you.

[Yael]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1937/press.html