List of Famous people with last name Palade

George Emil Palade

First Name George

Last Name Palade

Born on November 19, 1912

Died on October 7, 2008 (aged 95)

Born in Romania, Iași County

George Emil Palade ForMemRS HonFRMS was a Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.

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