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Aaron Klug
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Aaron Klug

1926 – 2018 · aged 92

British chemist and biophysicist

Born
11 Aug 1926 · Želva
Died
20 Nov 2018 · Cambridge
Part ofLithuania1236 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 11 Aug 1926BornBorn in Želva
  2. 1973AwardLeeuwenhoek Lecture
  3. 1978AwardHonorary doctor of Louis Pasteur University
  4. 1979AwardDr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
  5. 1981AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  6. 1982AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  7. 1984AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
  8. 1985AwardCopley Medal
  9. 1987AwardBaly Medal
  10. 1988AwardKnight Bachelor
  11. 1992AwardHonorary member of the British Biophysical Society
  12. 1995AwardOrder of Merit
  13. 1995 – 2000RolePresident of the Royal Society
  14. 2005AwardOrder of Mapungubwe in Gold
  15. 20 Nov 2018DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1926 – 2018).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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.

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