1. Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist.
20 Facts About Aaron Klug
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Aaron Klug 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.
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Aaron Klug was part of the Hashomer Hatzair Jewish Zionist youth movement in South Africa.
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Aaron Klug studied physics under Reginald W James and obtained his Master of Science degree at the University of Cape Town.
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Aaron Klug was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, which enabled him to move to England, completing his PhD in research physics at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1953.
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Aaron Klug studied the structure of transfer RNA, and found what is known as zinc fingers as well as the neurofibrils in Alzheimer's disease.
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Also in 1962, Aaron Klug became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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Aaron Klug was later made an Honorary Fellow of the college.
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Between 1986 and 1996, Aaron Klug was director of the LMB.
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Aaron Klug served on the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
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Aaron Klug served on the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.
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Aaron Klug and Dai Rees approached the Wellcome Trust to found the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which was a key player in the Human Genome Project.
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Aaron Klug was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1981.
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Aaron Klug was elected its President from 1995 to 2000.
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Aaron Klug was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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In 2000, Aaron Klug received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Aaron Klug was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, in 2005.
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In 2013, Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev dedicated their centre for structural biology in Klug's name, Aaron Klug Integrated Centre for Biomolecular Structure.
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Aaron Klug was associated with the university and the town of Be'er Sheva, having visited them numerous times.
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Aaron Klug married Liebe Bobrow in 1948; they had two sons, one of whom predeceased them in 2000.