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Aaron Klug

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Also known as Sir Aaron Klug

British chemist and biophysicist

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Sir Aaron Klug (1926–2018) was a British biochemist, molecular biologist, and university teacher. Born in Želva, he held citizenship in the United Kingdom and served as a professor at Birkbeck, University of London. His academic career included studies at Peterhouse, the University of Cape Town, Trinity College, and the University of the Witwatersrand, where his doctoral advisor was Douglas Hartree.

Klug’s work focused on chemistry and biochemistry. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the Copley Medal, and the title of Knight Bachelor. He was a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klug died in Cambridge and is survived by two children.

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5 total works indexed

  1. BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

    · 2010 · cited 27,563x

  2. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 26,064x

  3. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,631x

  4. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data

    · 2021 · cited 15,054x

  5. Generative adversarial networks

    · 2020 · cited 13,874x

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Quotes

  • “I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.”
  • “People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1982

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

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Aaron Klug (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.

Early life and education

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