What is Aaron Klug?
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Aaron Klug | image = Aaron Klug 1979.jpg | image_size = | caption = Aaron Klug in 1979 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|8|11}} | birth_place = [[Želva]], [[Lithuania]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|11|20|1926|8|11}} | death_place = [[Cambridge]], [[Cambridgeshire]], [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] | nationality = British | field = [[Biophysics]], [[chemistry]] | work_institutions = [[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[Birkbeck, University of London]] | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[electron crystallography]] | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 1982 }} [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Aaron Klug''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[President of the Royal Society|PRS]] (August 11, 1926 &ndash; November 20, 2018) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[British]] [[chemist]] and [[biophysicist]].<ref name=virt>{{cite web|title=Aaron Klug (1926-)|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/klug.html|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=November 7, 2009}}</ref> Klug won the 1982 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for developing [[crystallography|crystallographic]] [[Electron microscope|electron microscopy]] and working out the structure of [[nucleic acid]]-[[protein]] complexes.<ref name=Nobel>{{cite press release | author=Nobel Foundation | title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982 | url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1982/index.html | publisher=The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | date=October 18, 1982 | access-date=September 13, 2007}}</ref> ==Biography== Klug was born in Želva, [[Lithuania]] to [[Jewish]] parents. The family moved to [[South Africa]] when he was two. Klug graduated with a degree in science at the University of Witwatersrand and studied [[crystallography]] at the [[University of Cape Town]] before moving to England, completing his doctorate at [[Trinity College, Camb