The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982

Aaron Klug

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982 was awarded to Aaron Klug "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"

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