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Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS (August 11, 1926 – November 20, 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist.[1]
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Aaron Klug | |
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![]() Aaron Klug in 1979 | |
Born | (1926-08-11)August 11, 1926 Želva, Lithuania |
Died | November 20, 2018(2018-11-20) (aged 92) |
Nationality | British |
Known for | electron crystallography |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biophysics, chemistry |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Birkbeck, University of London |
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Klug won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and working out the structure of nucleic acid-protein complexes.[2]