Aaron Klug
British biophysicist and chemist (1926–2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | (1926-08-11)11 August 1926 Želva, Lithuania |
Died | 20 November 2018(2018-11-20) (aged 92) |
Nationality | British |
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Known for | Crystallographic electron microscopy |
Spouse |
Liebe Bobrow (m. 1948) |
Children | Two |
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Thesis | The kinetics of phase changes in solids (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | Douglas Hartree[2] |
Website | www2 |
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