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“Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.”

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Aaron Klug is a renowned chemist known for his contributions to crystallography. Born on August 11, 1926, he is one of the pioneers in the field of crystallography and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982 for his research in X-ray crystallography. more

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