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* [http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=021M-C0464X0031XX-0100V0.xml Listen to an oral history interview with Aaron Klug] – a life story interview recorded for [http://www.bl.uk/nls National Life Stories] at the British Library |
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Sir Aaron Klug | |
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Born | [5] Želva, Lithuania | 11 August 1926
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Crystallographic electron microscopy[6] |
Spouse |
Liebe Bobrow (m. 1948) |
Children | Two[5] |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The kinetics of phase changes in solids (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | Douglas Hartree[4] |
Website | www2 |
Sir Aaron Klug OM HonFRMS PRS[1] (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian-born, South African-educated, 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.[7][8][9][10][11][5][12]
Education and early life
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Klug was born in Želva to Jewish parents Lazar, a cattleman, and Bella (née Silin) Klug with whom he moved to South Africa at the age of two.[13][14] He was educated at Durban High School.[5] He later graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of the Witwatersrand and studied for his Master of Science degree at the University of Cape Town[5] before he was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851,[15] which enabled him to move to England, completing his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1953.
Career and research
Following his PhD, Klug moved to Birkbeck College in the University of London in late 1953, and started working with Rosalind Franklin in John Bernal's lab. This experience aroused a lifelong interest in the study of viruses, and during his time there he made discoveries in the structure[16] of the tobacco mosaic virus. In 1962 he moved to the newly built Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Over the following decade Klug used methods from X-ray diffraction, microscopy and structural modelling to develop crystallographic electron microscopy in which a sequence of two-dimensional images of crystals taken from different angles are combined to produce three-dimensional images of the target. In 1962 Klug was offered a teaching Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He went on teaching after his Nobel Prize because he found the courses interesting and was later made an Honorary Fellow at the College.[5][17]
He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[18]
He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.[19]
Awards and honours
Klug was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1981. Between 1986 and 1996 he was director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1988.[20] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1969[1] and served as President from 1995–2000. He was appointed Order of Merit in 1995 – as is customary for Presidents of the Royal Society. His certificate of election to the Royal Society reads:
Mathematical physicist and crystallographer distinguished for his contributions to molecular biology, especially the structure of viruses. Development of a theory of simultaneous temperature and phase changes in steels led him to apply related mathematical methods to the problem of diffusion and chemical reactions of gases in thin layers of haemoglobin solutions and in red blood cells. Then the late Rosalind Franklin introduced him to the x-ray study of tobacco mosaic virus to which he contributed by his application and further development of Cochran and Crick's theory of diffraction from helical chain molecules. Klug's most important work is concerned with the structure of spherical viruses. Together with D. Caspar he developed a general theory of spherical shells built up of a regular array of asymmetric particles. Klug and his collaborators verified the theory by x-ray and electron microscope studies, thereby revealing new and hitherto unsuspected features of virus structure.[21]
In 2005 he was awarded South Africa's Order of Mapungubwe (gold) for exceptional achievements in medical science.[22]
Personal life
Klug married Liebe Bobrow in 1948.[5] Though Klug had faced discrimination in South Africa, he remained religious and according to Sydney Brenner, he has become more religious in his older age.[23]
References
- ^ a b c "Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015.
- ^ "Honourary Fellows". www.rms.org.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows Past and Present". www.rms.org.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ Aaron Klug at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d e f g h i KLUG. "KLUG, Sir Aaron". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black.
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- ^ Nobel Foundation (18 October 1982). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982" (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
- ^ Wakabayashi, K. (1983). "Accomplishment of Dr. Aaron Klug, winner of Nobel prize in chemistry, 1982". Tanpakushitsu kakusan koso. Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme. 28 (2): 156–157. PMID 6342048.
- ^ Shampo, M. A.; Kyle, R. A. (1994). "Sir Aaron Klug--Nobel Prize winner for chemistry". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 69 (6): 556. doi:10.1016/S0025-6196(12)62247-2. PMID 8189761.
- ^ Aaron Klug biography at the Nobel Foundation
- ^ Finch, John (2008). A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor. Medical Research Council. ISBN 978-1-84046-940-0. this book is all about the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
- ^ Aaron Klug archive collection - Churchill Archives Centre finding aid.
- ^ "The Papers of Sir Aaron Klug". Churchill Archives Centre. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Sir Aaron Klug first broadcast 2002-05-12". BBC.
- ^ 1851 Royal Commission Archives
- ^ Amos, L.; Finch, J. T. (2004). "Aaron Klug and the revolution in biomolecular structure determination". Trends in Cell Biology. 14 (3): 148–152. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2004.01.002. PMID 15003624.
- ^ "Eminent Petreans". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015.
- ^ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Sciencecampaign.org.uk. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
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- ^ "Aaron Klug (1926–)". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ^ "Certificate of Election EC/1969/19: Aaron Klug". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 November 2015.
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Further reading
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- Aaron Klug tells his life story at Web of Stories
- Aaron Klug interviews with Harry Kroto
- Aaron Klug article by Bob Weintraub
- Aaron Klug interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 11 December 2007 (film)
- Listen to an oral history interview with Aaron Klug – a life story interview recorded for National Life Stories at the British Library
- Aaron Klug, Nobel Luminaries Project, The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot
- 1926 births
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- English biophysicists
- English chemists
- English Jews
- English Nobel laureates
- English people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Jewish chemists
- Knights Bachelor
- Lithuanian emigrants to South Africa
- Lithuanian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Lithuanian Jews
- Lithuanian Nobel laureates
- Living people
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Order of Merit
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- Nobel laureates in Chemistry
- Presidents of the Royal Society
- Recipients of the Copley Medal
- Winners of the Heineken Prize
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
- South African Jews
- South African Nobel laureates
- South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- South African scientists
- Scripps Research Institute
- University of Cape Town alumni
- University of the Witwatersrand alumni
- Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society