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Aaron Klug

1926 - 2018

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Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aaron Klug has received more than 217,671 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Aaron Klug is the 233rd most popular chemist (down from 178th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 28th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Aaron Klug ranks 233 out of 510. Before him are Henry Taube, Friedrich Sertürner, Robert W. Holley, Michael Polanyi, James Dewar, and Alexander R. Todd. After him are Kaoru Ishikawa, Ida Noddack, Thomas Graham, John E. Walker, William Standish Knowles, and Erwin Chargaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Aaron Klug ranks 95. Before him are Joachim Fest, Roger Corman, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Youssef Chahine, György Kurtág, and Kim Jae-gyu. After him are Francisco Rabal, László Papp, Ed McBain, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Robert Fogel, and Hans Werner Henze. Among people deceased in 2018, Aaron Klug ranks 73. Before him are Dolores O'Riordan, John Gavin, Paul D. Boyer, Osamu Shimomura, Samir Amin, and Tom Wolfe. After him are Avicii, Sondra Locke, Alan Bean, Paul Virilio, Efraín Ríos Montt, and Thomas A. Steitz.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Aaron Klug ranks 34 out of 235. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Isaac Levitan (1860), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Leo Jogiches (1867), and Andrew Schally (1926). After him are Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), Alexander Berkman (1870), Clara Rockmore (1911), Moshe Arens (1925), and Leopold Godowsky (1870).

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Among CHEMISTS In Lithuania

Among chemists born in Lithuania, Aaron Klug ranks 2. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865). After him are Phoebus Levene (1869).

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