Christian de Duve, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christian de Duve

Belgian biochemist, cytologist

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1917

Place of Birth: Thames Ditton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-May-2013

Profession: physician, professor, chemist, biologist, university teacher, physiologist, biochemist, academic

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Christian de Duve

  • Christian RenĂ© Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning English-born Belgian cytologist and biochemist.
  • He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E.
  • Palade ("for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell").
  • In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented the scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis in a single occasion.The son of Belgian refugees during the First World War, de Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England.His family returned to Belgium in 1920.
  • He was educated by the Jesuits at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwinstituut in Antwerp, and studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven.
  • Upon earning his MD in 1941, he joined research in chemistry, working on insulin and its role in diabetes mellitus.
  • His thesis earned him the highest university degree agrĂ©gation de l'enseignement supĂ©rieur (equivalent to PhD) in 1945.With his work on the purification of penicillin, he obtained an MSc degree in 1946.
  • He went for further training under (later Nobel Prize winners) Hugo Theorell at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and Carl and Gerti Cori at the Washington University in St.
  • Louis.
  • He joined the faculty of medicine at Leuven in 1947.
  • In 1960 he was invited to the Rockfeller Institute (now Rockefeller University).
  • With mutual arrangement with Leuven, he became professor in both universities from 1962, dividing his time between Leuven and New York.
  • He became emeritus professor of the University of Louvain in 1985, and of Rockefeller in 1988.De Duve was granted the rank of Viscount in 1989 by King Baudouin of Belgium.
  • He was also a recipient of Francqui Prize, Gairdner Foundation International Award, Heineken Prize, and E.
  • B.
  • Wilson Medal.
  • In 1974 he founded the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Brussels, eventually renamed the de Duve Institute in 2005.
  • He was the founding President of the L'OrĂ©al-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

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