George Emil Palade
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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Date of Birth
November 19th, 1912
Age
113
Birth Place
Romania, Iași County
Date of Death
October 7th, 2008
Died Aged
95
Star Sign
Scorpio
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