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Wilson Medal (8) F (394) Francqui Prize (3) G-H (389) G (254) Gairdner Foundation International Award (89) Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II (1) O-P (364) O (205) Order of Leopold (1) Order of Leopold II (2) complete name: Christian de Duve nobel prize: medicine award year: 1974 together with: George Emil Palade together with: Albert Claude prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 was awarded jointly to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Christian family name: Duve occupation: professor occupation: chemist occupation: biologist occupation: university teacher occupation: biochemist occupation: academic field of work: biochemistry field of work: cell biology work location: The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065-6399, United States of America description: Christian de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning 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. A son of Belgian refugees during the First World War, de Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain. 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 agrégation de l'enseignement supérieur (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 Leuven university in 1985, and of Rockefeller in 1988. De Duve was decorated with 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'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. He died on 4 May (Saturday) 2013 by self-induced euthanasia in the presence of all of his children. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1974/summary/> date birth: 1917 date death: 2013 usual name: Christian de Duve
