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Aaron Klug – A Long Way from Durban A Biography
Kenneth C. Holmes Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg
A Nobel prize winner and pioneer of structural molecular biology, Aaron Klug served as Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and President of the Royal Society. Holmes draws on their long-term collaboration, interviews and unique access to Klug’s archives to illuminate both his personal life and significant scientific achievements. Contents: Part I. From Durban to Birkbeck College; Part II. Science at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Part III. Duties and Rewards. ‘This biography highlights both the sense in which Klug was self-made and driven, and the importance of his collaborations, mentors, peers and his own students in shaping the man he became and his intellectual achievements. The biography also offers a fascinating insight into macromolecular scientific discovery while keeping a very human touch throughout. A fitting tribute to a great scientist and role model.’ Max Price, University of Cape Town ‘Kenneth C. Holmes’ lively biography of Aaron Klug narrates the fascinating story of a man who had a central role in the transformation of modern biology into a molecular science. Holmes embeds Klug’s scientific innovations in the wider context of mid-to-late twentieth-century intellectual and social history; his descriptions of the left-wing Zionism of Klug’s youth in South Africa and of the machinations of reactionary dons in Peterhouse, Cambridge, have the same absorbing clarity as his explanations of how Klug and his co-workers created a science of quantitative image analysis in electron microscopy. At once a vade mecum to structural biology and a document of the postwar academic scene in Britain, this book is also quite simply a very good read.’ Stephen Harrison, Harvard University 2017 228 x 152 mm 378pp 60 b/w illus. 13 colour illus. 978-1-107-14737-9 Hardback £29.99 / US$44.99 For all formats available, see
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