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Home > LMB Alumni News > Sir Aaron Klug. 11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018

Sir Aaron Klug. 11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018

Published on 23 January, 2020

Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses prompted him to think deeply about extracting the information contained in electron micrographs. As a result, he proposed a method for making 3D maps of biological specimens from the projected images given by micrographs. For this development and its application to complex molecular assemblies, he was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The recent revolution in biological structure determination derives from this initial breakthrough. Aaron’s Royal Society Biographical Memoir, written by Tony Crowther, has recently been published. More…

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