Aaron Klug#
| Email: | akl 'at' mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 868 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Username: | aklug |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995- 2000- President of the Royal Society
- 1986- 1996- Administrator of Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University
- 1962- 1996- Professor at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University
- 1958- 1962- Administrator of the Virus Structure Research Group at University of London
- 1953- 1958- Fellow at Birkbeck College at University of London
- 1953- PhD at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure and action of transfer DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
- Crystallographic electron microscopy
Honours and Awards
- Member of Royal Society
- Member of Academia Europea
- Member of National Academy of Sciences
- Member of Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
- Member of French Academy of Sciences
- South African Order of Mapungubwe 2005 (Gold)
- Order of Merit 1995
- Knight of the British Empire 1988
- Copley Medal 1985
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1982
- Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 1981
- Heineken Prize for Medicine 1973






