Aaron Klug

Also known as Sir Aaron Klug

British chemist and biophysicist

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Aaron Klug was a British chemist and biophysicist who made important contributions to understanding the structure of biological molecules. His work helped scientists see how proteins and viruses are built at the atomic level, which has been fundamental to medical research and drug development.

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5 total works indexed

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 26,961x
The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,592x
MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,111x
Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 14,295x
Generative adversarial networks
· 2020 · cited 13,354x

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“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.”
“People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”

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Image: Aaron Klug 1979.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Aaron Klug
date of birth: 1926-08-11
date of death: 2018-11-20
name in native language: Aaron Klug

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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.

Early life and education