Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Aaron Klug
Sir Aaron Klug 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.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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November 20
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