Aaron Klug

Aaron Klug

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1982)

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Aaron Klug was a British chemist and biophysicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982 for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes. At the time of the award, he was affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom.