Aaron Klug Quotes:- Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born, South African-educated, British biophysicist, and 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.
Inspirational Aaron Klug Quotes
I like teaching and contact with young minds keeps one on one’s toes.
Aaron Klug
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
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
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyze the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of hemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
Aaron Klug
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
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
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short-term results.
Aaron Klug
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
