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Aaron Klug

Chemistry1982(1)

Motivation

"for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize Amount: SEK 1,150,000 (adjusted: SEK 3,923,237)

Affiliation

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Personal Information

Full Name:

Aaron Klug

Gender:

male

Born:

1926-08-11 — Zelvas, Lithuania

Died:

2018-11-20

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry1982

for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes

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