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Aaron Klug
1926 – 2018
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallographic electron microscopy
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Why they are here
He worked out how to see the structure of virus and nucleic acid–protein complexes, and won the 1982 chemistry Nobel for the method and the results together.
Aaron Klug was a South African-raised chemist and biophysicist, born in Lithuania in 1926 and brought up in Durban.
He won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and for working out the structures of biologically important nucleic acid–protein complexes. He died in 2018.
He won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and for working out the structures of biologically important nucleic acid–protein complexes. He died in 2018.
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