Awards & Winners

Aaron Klug

Date of Birth 11-August-1926
Place of Birth Lithuania
(Baltic states, Europe, Eurasia)
Nationality United Kingdom, South Africa
Profession Scientist, Chemist, Physicist
Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and 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. His scientific biography is currently being written by former colleague Kenneth Holmes.

Awards by Aaron Klug

Check all the awards nominated and won by Aaron Klug.

1985


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his outstanding contributions to our understanding of complex biological structures and the methods used for determining them.)

1982


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.)