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.

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.