Christian de Duve
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Belgian biochemist. He was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey and grew up in Antwerp, Belgium.[1]
Duve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He discovered two cell organelles, lysosomes and peroxisomes. He described them, and was the first to investigate their functions. Duve shared the Nobel prize with Albert Claude and George E. Palade.
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[2]
De Duve died in Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, on 4 May 2013, when he asked that his life be ended through euthanasia.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Christian de Duve - Autobiography". nobelprize.org. 2011. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ↑ "Christian de Duve". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
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