Aaron Klug
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Aaron Klug was a British chemist and biophysicist who made important contributions to understanding the structure of biological molecules. His work helped scientists see how proteins and viruses are built at the atomic level, which has been fundamental to medical research and drug development.
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- 1926-08-11
- Died
- 2018-11-20
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5 total works indexed
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 26,961x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,592x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,111x
- Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 14,295x
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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.
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1926 births2018 deathsAcademics of Birkbeck, University of LondonAlumni of Durban High SchoolAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish biophysicistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesChemists of Birkbeck, University of LondonEnglish Nobel laureatesFellows of Peterhouse, CambridgeFellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)