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.

He moved to Birkbeck College in the University of London in late 1953 and started working with Rosalind Franklin in John Bernal's lab. His scientific biography is currently being written by former colleague Kenneth Holmes. He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.

His scientific biography is currently being written by former colleague Kenneth Holmes. Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.