Tuesday 19 November 2013

George Emil Palade

George Emil Palade was a Romanian 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. He was born on November 19, 1912 and died on October 7, 2008.
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