Aaron Klug (1926-2018)

Awarded the Prize “for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes.”

British chemist. Klug was born in Zelvas, Lithuania on August 11, 1926. He entered the University of the Witwatersr at Johannesburg graduated in 1947, then began a doctoral study at the University of Cape Town but left with a ’s degree upon receiving a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate in 1953. In 1958 Klug became Director of the Virus Structure Research Group at Birkbeck. In 1962, he returned to Cambridge as a staff member of the Medical Research Council; in 1978 he was named joint head of its division of structural studies. Klug died on November 20, 2018 in Cambridge, UK.