George Emil Palade
Academic
1912 – 2008
Who was George Emil Palade?
George Emil Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist. He was described as "the most influential cell biologist ever"; in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together 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.
Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986, and was previously elected a Member of the US National Academy of Science in 1961.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1912
Iași - Also known as
- Dr. George Emil Palade
- George Palade
- Spouses
- Marilyn Farquhar
(1970 - )
- Marilyn Farquhar
- Ethnicity
- Romanian American
- Romanians
- Nationality
- Romania
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Employment
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Iași
- Died
- Oct 7, 2008
Del Mar
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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