Albert Claude
Albert Claude (born August 23, 1899 in Longlier / Province of Luxembourg ; † May 22, 1983 in Brussels ) was a Belgian physician and is considered a co-founder of modern cell biology . In 1974 he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine .
Claude completed his medical studies in Liège in 1928 and initially conducted research with tissue cultures at the Institute for Cancer Research in Berlin . In 1929 he moved to the USA, where he worked in cancer research at the Rockefeller Institute in New York . In the course of his work he discovered the endoplasmic reticulum and also found out more about the function of the mitochondria . Since 1942 he was also engaged in electron microscopic research, an instrument that had not yet been used in biology.
Although he had received US citizenship in 1941, he returned to Belgium in 1949 and subsequently held professorships in both New York and Leuven .
In 1971, Claude was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . On February 10, 1975 he became a corresponding member and on April 21, 1975 associé étranger of the Académie des sciences . In 1974, together with George Emil Palade and Christian de Duve, he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine “for their discoveries on the structural and functional organization of the cell”.
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Claude, Albert. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 263 f.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1974 award to Albert Claude
- Albert Claude in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 30, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claude, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Longlier , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1983 |
| Place of death | Brussels |