Aaron Klug

Sir

Aaron Klug

OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS
Sir; Aaron Klug; OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS
	Aaron Klug in 1979
Born	11 August 1926; Želva, Lithuania
Died	20 November 2018 (aged 92); Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Nationality	British
Education	University of the Witwatersrand (BSc); University of Cape Town (MSc); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Crystallographic electron microscopy
Spouse	Liebe Bobrow (m. 1948)
Children	Two
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1969); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1981); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1982); Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1984); Copley Medal (1985); Hon FRMS (1985); Knighted 1988; OM 1995 President of the Royal Society 1995–2000
	Scientific career
Fields	Biophysics; Chemistry;
Institutions	Peterhouse, Cambridge; Birkbeck, University of London; Laboratory of Molecular Biology;
Thesis	The kinetics of phase changes in solids (1953)
Doctoral advisor	Douglas Hartree
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/about-lmb/archive-and-alumni/alumni/aaron-klug/

Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) 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.

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