Christian de Duve

Christian René Marie Joseph de Duve (Known as "Christian de Duve")

Cytologist, Biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1974), Discoverer of Lysosomes

Born Oct 02, 1917

Thames Ditton (Surrey), Great Britain

Passed Away May 04, 2013 Grez-Doiceau (Walloon Brabant), Belgium

Lifespan 95 years old

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"The cell is not a shapeless bag of enzymes, but a wondrous microscopic metropolis with specialized factories and recycling chambers."

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Belgian cytologist and biochemist who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and George Palade for discovering lysosomes and peroxisomes, revolutionizing cell biology.

Biographical Record

Born in England to Belgian refugee parents during World War I, De Duve graduated in medicine and chemistry from the Catholic University of Leuven. While investigating the intracellular mechanism of insulin, he pioneered rate-zonal cell fractionation by differential centrifugation.

In 1955, De Duve discovered lysosomes, the membrane-bound 'recycling centers' and digestive organelles of the cell, and later discovered peroxisomes. In 1974, he founded the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (now the de Duve Institute) in Brussels.

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Grez-Doiceau (Walloon Brabant), Belgium

                         GPS: 50.7389, 4.6944                    

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