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Nobel Laureate to present two lectures at Clarkson University in Potsdam

Posted 11/19/14

POTSDAM -- Nobel Laureate in chemistry Ada Yonath will present the two lectures of Clarkson University's 20th Shipley Distinguished Lectureship, Nov. 20 and 21. Both are free and open to the public. …

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Nobel Laureate to present two lectures at Clarkson University in Potsdam

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POTSDAM -- Nobel Laureate in chemistry Ada Yonath will present the two lectures of Clarkson University's 20th Shipley Distinguished Lectureship, Nov. 20 and 21. Both are free and open to the public.

Yonath, an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome, is director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, and the Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Yonath's lecture "Can structures lead to advanced therapeutics?" will be presented on Friday, November 21, at 4:15 p.m. in Science Center room 360. The presentation will be preceded by a 3:30 p.m. reception.

For students, faculty and the more technically inclined, Yonath's lecture "What was first, the genetic code or its products?" will be presented on Thursday, November 20, at 11 a.m. in Bertrand H. Snell Hall room 212.

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