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Having moved to South Africa at the age of two, he graduated with a degree in science at the University Of Witwatersrand and studied Crystallography at the University Of Cape Town before moving to England , completing his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1953 . Working with Rosalind Franklin in John Bernal 's lab in London aroused a lifelong interest in the study of Viruses , and during his time there in the late 1950s he made discoveries in the structure of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus . Over the following decade Klug used methods from X-ray Diffraction , microscopy and structural modelling to develop crystallographic electron microscopy in which a sequence of two-dimensional images of crystals taken from different angles are combined to produce three-dimensional images of the target. Between 1986 and 1996 he was director of the Laboratory Of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and was knighted in 1988 . |
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