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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug / Chemist
Plans
Unexpected
Cannot
Plan
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
Aaron Klug / Chemist
Contact
Toes
Minds
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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 / Chemist
Feels
Interesting
Strong
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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 / Chemist
Cambridge
Dominion
Goes On
Laboratory
Physics
Colonies
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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 / Chemist
Nobel
People
Sometimes
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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 / Chemist
Analysis
Decided
Molecules
Biological
More And More
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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Glamorous
Produce
Understanding
Basic
Basic Understanding
Immediate
Necessarily
Nor
Processes
Seeks
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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 / Chemist
Responsibility
Teaching
Years
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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 / Chemist
Men
Cattle
Countryside
Facts
Father
Selling
Young Man
Rearing
Trained
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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 / Chemist
Best
Curiosity
Force
Natural
Natural World
Powerful
Secret
Struggle
Human
Secret Weapon
Weapon
Perhaps
Powerful Force
Unravel
Urge
Workings
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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 / Chemist
Geography
Latin
Philosophy
School
Bright
Rest
Specialised
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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 / Chemist
Members
Followed
Settled
Thereafter
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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 / Chemist
Achieve
Investment
Periods
Pressure
Results
Technological
Term
Theoretical
Time Work Long
Carry
Developments
Work Time Long
Large
Long Periods
Moderately
Quick
Requires
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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 / Chemist
Add
Cambridge
Involved
Research
Actively
However
Perhaps
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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 / Chemist
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Computer
Curves
Oxygen
Rate
Analyse
Course
Stay
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