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Middle-aged man wearing glasses and a suit with a patterned tie holds up his thumb next to a faceted glass award.

70 Cavendish Avenue, Beverley, Cambridge

History of 70 Cavendish Avenue

1911

not in census


1939

Charles Dairson, b 1858, retired schoolmaster

Margaret,  b 1854


This house is a former residence of the renowned scientist Sir Aaron Klug born 1926. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982 for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural studies of protein complexes. His work was based at the LMB.

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