Let's make this birthday one to remember.

86 years old (Born on June 22, 1939)

Happy Birthday, Ada Yonath! If age is measured in ribosomes analyzed, you're positively timeless! Your Nobel-winning discovery about their structure proved that you don't need X-ray vision to decode life's mysteries—just X-ray crystallography and brilliance.

From Tel Aviv to Stockholm and beyond, you continue inspiring generations of scientists (and impressing everyone else who's still figuring out exactly what a ribosome does). May your birthday be filled with joy brighter than an electron diffraction pattern—and may the candles on your cake multiply fewer times than RNA molecules do in a cell. Cheers to many more groundbreaking discoveries ahead!