biography
pronunciation:
[klook]
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Biophysicist, born in Lithuania. He moved to South Africa at the age of three, and later studied at Johannesburg and Cape Town, completing his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a research fellow at Birkbeck College (1953), where he worked with Rosalind Franklin, and became director of the Virus Structure Research Group there (1958–62). He joined the staff of the Medical Research Council Laboratory at Cambridge (1962), becoming its director in 1986. He brought together X-ray diffraction methods, electron microscopy, structural modelling, and symmetry arguments to elucidate the structure of viruses. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1982, and knighted in 1988. In 1995 he was elected president of the Royal Society. |
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