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Aaron Klug

1926-2018United KingdomNobel Chemistry 1982

Crystallographic electron microscopy

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Aaron Klug: Seeing the Shapes of Viruses and Gene-Controlling Proteins

Aaron Klug's image reconstruction from electron micrographs, nucleosome and zinc finger work explained for JAM, NET and GATE students. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982.

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Biography

Aaron Klug: From Durban to the Frontiers of Structural Biology

Life of Sir Aaron Klug (1926-2018): Lithuania to South Africa, Cambridge, work with Rosalind Franklin, the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and his scientific legacy.

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