
Christian de Duve
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Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade ("for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"). In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such a
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Il y a 50 ans, Christian de Duve, chercheur de l'UCLouvain, recevait le Prix Nobel de médecine
Christian de Duve: Explorer of the cell who discovered new organelles by using a centrifuge
Christian de Duve, le dernier prix Nobel belge, est décédé (revoir l'interview)