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British biophysicist and chemist (1926–2018)

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.

Aaron Klug (1926 - 2018) - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Early life and education

Klug was born in Želva, in Lithuania, to Jewish parents Lazar, a cattleman, and Bella (née Silin) Klug, with whom he emigrated to South Africa at the age of two. He was educated at Durban High School. Paul de Kruif's 1926 book, Microbe Hunters, aroused his interest in microbiology.^[2]

Klug was part of the Hashomer Hatzair Jewish Zionist youth movement in South Africa.^{[3][page needed][better source needed]}

He started to study microbiology, but then moved into physics and maths, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree at the University o Aaron Klug - A Long Way from Durban QUPU