Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
- Fame52.7
- Momentum0.4
- Global rank#174
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- Fame52.7
- Momentum0.4
- Global rank#174
- Scientists rank#131
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Lived 1898–1983, aged 85
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Updated 2026-06-10
He cracked open the cell and mapped its inner world — mitochondria, ribosomes, the whole unseen machinery that keeps life running. Before Claude, cells were black boxes; after, biology had blueprints.
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Born in Longlier in 1899, Claude served in British Intelligence during the First World War and was imprisoned twice in concentration camps. The service earned him a spot at the University of Liège to study medicine without the usual prerequisites, and he took his MD in 1928. A year later he landed at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, where he invented cell fractionation in 1930 — a technique that let him isolate and identify the agents of cancer and the organelles that had been invisible until then. He was the first to turn an electron microscope on living tissue, and in 1945 he published…
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