Aaron Klug

Aaron Klug (August 11th 1926 with Zelvas, Lithuania) is a physicist and chemist English of Lithuanian origin. It accepted the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1982 for its development of crystallographic electronic microscopy and its discoveries on the structure of the nucleic protein-acid complexes biologically important.

Party food at the two years age to Durban, in South Africa, it made its studies with the Université of Witwatersrand to Johannesbourg and studied the Cristallographie with the Université of the Cape, before leaving in England, supplementing its Doctorat with the Trinity College of Cambridge in 1953.

Working with Franklin Rosalind in the professor John Desmond Bernal with London, it showed a great interest for the study of the Virus, and made discoveries on the structures of some of them. During the years 1970, Klug used the method of Diffraction of x-rays, microscopy and structural modeling to develop crystallographic electronic microscopy with a sequence of images in two crystal dimensions taken under various angles and combined to produce three-dimensional images. This work was worth to him the Médaille Copley in 1985.

Between 1986 and 1996 he was the director of the Laboratory off Molecular Biology of Cambridge and was annobli in 1988. It was moreover president of the Royal Society of 1995 with 2000.

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Prize winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry 1982
Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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