Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Whose 3-D Images of Biological Molecules Won Him the 1982 Nobel Chemistry Prize, Dies at 92, An Obituary-Tribute

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The Chemical Educator

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Abstract Volume 24 (2019) pp 48-51

Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Whose 3-D Images of Biological Molecules Won Him the 1982 Nobel Chemistry Prize, Dies at 92, An Obituary-Tribute

George B. Kauffman*

Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu

Published: 13 March 2019

Abstract. Sir Aaron Klug OM, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRMS, a British physicist who won the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1982 “for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes,” died on November 20, 2018 at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife of seventy years, Liebe; a son, David; and four grandchildren. Another son, Adam, died in 2000.

Key Words: Chemistry and History; Biography; Obituaries; Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Electronic Probes; Crystallographic Techniques; Molecular Arrangement of molecules Essential for Life; Chromosomes; 20th Century Molecular Biology; Royal Society; Three-Dimensional Arrangement of Atoms in Crystalline Substances; Medical Imaging; Duality of Electromagnetic Radiation as Both Waves and Particles; Transfer of Methods from Physics to the Life Sciences; chromatin; DNA in Living Tissue; Transfer RNA; Zinc Fingers; Alzheimer’s Disease; Neurodegenerative Disease; Jews; Anti-Semitism; Microbiology; South Africa; Royal Society; Gender Inequality; Fourier Electron Microscopy; laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu )

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