Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug
Sir Aaron Klug OM PRSis a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 August 1926
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