Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
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Belgian-American cell biologist who won the 1974 Nobel Prize for basically inventing how we see inside cells. Developed cell fractionation at Rockefeller, pioneered electron microscopy in biology, and mapped the first detailed cell structure in 1945.
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Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. He earned his Doctor of Medicine deg…
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