Christian de Duve
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve 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.
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- Born in
- Thames Ditton
- Educated at
- Our Lady College, AntwerpCatholic University of Leuven
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University🏆 honorary doctor of the University Lille-II🏆 E. B. Wilson Medal🏆 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Hugo Theorell🎓 Albert Claude
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1917
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