Aaron Klug

Born: 1926-08-11 in Zelvas, Lithuania

Gender: male

Field: British biophysicist and chemist (1926–2018)

Biography

Sir Aaron Klug 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.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982

Awarded on: 1982-10-18

"for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"

Affiliations:

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – Cambridge, United Kingdom

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