Aaron Klug Scientist

Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and 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.

Personal facts

Aaron Klug
Birth dateAugust 11, 1926
Birth place
Lithuania , Želva
Education
Trinity College Cambridge
Known for
Electron crystallography

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Scientist

awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
doctoral advisor
Douglas Hartree
Field of study
Chemistry
Biophysics

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External resources

  1. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FKLUG
  2. http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1982/klug-autobio.html
  3. http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=021M-C0464X0031XX-0100V0.xml
  4. http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=35664
  5. http://webofstories.com/gl/aaron.klug
  6. http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/klug.htm
  7. http://www.bl.uk/nls
  8. http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz
  9. http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/122
  10. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/emeritus/aaron-klug