Albert Claude
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Albert Claude 🇧🇪

Albert Claude (Known as "Albert Claude")
Biologist, Cytologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1974), Pioneer of Cell Biology
Born Aug 24, 1899 🇧🇪 Longlier (Neufchâteau, Luxembourg Province), Belgium
Passed Away May 22, 1983 Brussels, Belgium
Lifespan 83 years old
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"By breaking open the cell without destroying its delicate architecture, we unlocked the secret machinery of living matter."

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Belgian-American cytologist who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christian de Duve and George Palade for developing cell fractionation and the first electron micrographs of intact biological cells.

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Serving in the British intelligence service in World War I, Claude graduated in medicine from the University of Liège in 1928 before joining the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York.

Claude revolutionized modern biological science by using the high-speed centrifuge to separate cell components by weight and density, isolating mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum. In 1945, he produced the world's very first electron microscope images of biological cells, establishing structural cytology.

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Longlier Communal Cemetery
Neufchâteau (Luxembourg Province), Belgium
GPS: 49.8500, 5.4333
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