Aaron Klug

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Aaron Klug was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and biophysicist renowned for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Chemistry
biophysicist
chemist
human
awardReceived Copley Medal
Gairdner Foundation International Award
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists)
surface form: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Royal Medal
citizenship South Africa
United Kingdom
countryOfBirth Lithuania
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1926-08-11
dateOfDeath 2018-11-20
degree BSc in physics
PhD in research on liquid metals
educatedAt Trinity College, Cambridge
University of the Witwatersrand
employer Birkbeck, University of London
surface form: Birkbeck College, University of London

MRC LMB
surface form: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
familyName Klug
fieldOfWork biophysics
chemistry
crystallography
structural biology
givenName Aaron
honorificTitle Sir
influencedBy Francis Crick
Max Perutz
Rosalind Franklin
knownFor development of crystallographic electron microscopy
elucidation of structures of complex biological molecules
work on nucleic acid–protein complexes
memberOf Order of Merit
Royal Society
NobelPrizeCategory Chemistry
NobelPrizeMotivation for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid–protein complexes
NobelPrizeYear 1982
notableStudent Richard Henderson
placeOfBirth Želva
placeOfDeath CAMBRIDGE
surface form: Cambridge
positionHeld Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
President of the Royal Society
sexOrGender male
studied chromatin structure
virus structure
workLocation CAMBRIDGE
surface form: Cambridge

London, England
surface form: London

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