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Aaron Klug
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
Best
Struggle
World
Secret
"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes."
Aaron Klug
Like
Young
Contact
Toes
"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
Man
Business
Father
Young
"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
Family
Rest
Born
Mother
"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."
Aaron Klug
Science
Simple
Rest
Geography
"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
Place
Go
Physics
Colonies
"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
Curves
Stay
Oxygen
Reaction
"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
Work
Me
Matter
More
"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
Research
Back
Well
Cambridge
"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
Understanding
Living
Results
Field
"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
Work
Long
Time
Pressure
"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
Powerful
Struggle
Secret
"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
Powerful
Struggle
Secret
"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."
Aaron Klug
Philosophy
Latin
School
"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."
Aaron Klug
People
Sometimes
Nobel
"One cannot plan for the unexpected."
Aaron Klug
Unexpected
Plans
"I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting."
Aaron Klug
Strong
Interesting
Feels
"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
Goes On
Dominion
Physics
"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years."
Aaron Klug
Teaching
Responsibility
Years
"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
Father
Men
Facts
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