The ninth Israeli citizen to win a Nobel prize: <b>The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to</b> <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/press.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/press.html</a> Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"