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Sir Aaron Klug
OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS
Aaron Klug in 1979
Born(1926-08-11)11 August 1926
Želva, Lithuania
Died20 November 2018(2018-11-20) (aged 92)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
NationalityBritish
Education
  • University of the Witwatersrand (BSc)
  • University of Cape Town (MSc)
  • University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known forCrystallographic electron microscopy
Spouse
Liebe Bobrow
(m. 1948)
ChildrenTwo
Awards
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (1969)
  • Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1981)
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1982)
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1984)
  • Copley Medal (1985)
  • Hon FRMS (1985)[1]

Knighted 1988
OM 1995

President of the Royal Society 1995–2000
Scientific career
Fields
  • Biophysics
  • Chemistry
Institutions
  • Peterhouse, Cambridge
  • Birkbeck, University of London
  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology
ThesisThe kinetics of phase changes in solids (1953)
Doctoral advisorDouglas Hartree[2]
Websitewww2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/about-lmb/archive-and-alumni/alumni/aaron-klug/

Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.

  1. ^ "Honorary Fellows". Royal Microscopical Society. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. ^ Aaron Klug at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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