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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Basic Does Field Glamorous Immediate Increase Living Necessarily Nor Often Our Processes Produce Results Seeks Understanding

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One cannot plan for the unexpected.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Cannot Plan Unexpected

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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Contact Keeps Like Minds Teaching Toes Young

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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Business Cattle Countryside Fact Father Grew He His In Fact Man Rearing Selling Trained Up Worked Young Young Man

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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: After Born Century Family Followed Had He Members Mother Rest Settled Soon Thereafter Turn Where I Was Born

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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

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Topics: Boy Bright Geography Latin Like Philosophy Quite Rest School Science Simple

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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.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Cambridge Colonies Go Laboratory Physics Place Someone

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In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Also Analyse Carbon Carbon Dioxide Computer Could Course Curves Experimental Fit How Oxygen Rate Reaction Stay

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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Analysis Biological Decided Interested Made Matter Me Molecules More More And More Really Wanted Work X-Ray

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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Actively Add Back Been Cambridge Course However Involved Perhaps Research Should Students Teaching Well Years

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Physicist

Born: August 11th, 1926

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