{"id":85010,"date":"2018-11-22T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/sir-aaron-klug-om-scientist-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-electron-microscopy-and-chromosomes-obituary"},"modified":"2018-11-22T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:23:57","slug":"sir-aaron-klug-om-scientist-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-electron-microscopy-and-chromosomes-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/sir-aaron-klug-om-scientist-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-electron-microscopy-and-chromosomes-obituary","title":{"rendered":"Sir Aaron Klug, OM, scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his work on electron microscopy and chromosomes \u2013 obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sir-aaron-klug-om-scientist-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-electron-microscopy-and-chromosomes-obituary.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sir Aaron Klug, OM, who has died aged 92, won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his work in charting the infinitely complex structures of chromosomes, the body\u2019s largest molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Human genes are made of nucleic acids such as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). The acids are too small to be seen with an ordinary microscope and too large to be studied by examining them under X-rays.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/obituaries\/2018\/11\/22\/aaron-klug-om-physicist-won-nobel-prize-work-electron-microscopy\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/obituaries\/2018\/11\/22\/aaron-klug...icroscopy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Aaron Klug, OM, who has died aged 92, won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his work in charting the infinitely complex structures of chromosomes, the body\u2019s largest molecules. Human genes are made of nucleic acids such as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). The acids are too small [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}