Christian de Duve

Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade.

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Who was born first?

• Christian de Duve and Andrew Huxley were born the same year
• Christian de Duve and John Fenn were born the same year
• Christian de Duve and Herbert A. Hauptman were born the same year
• Christian de Duve and William Standish Knowles were born the same year
• Christian de Duve and Walter Munk were born the same year

Timeline

1. Andrew HuxleyNovember 22, 1917 – May 30, 2012
2. Christian de Duve (this page)October 2, 1917 – May 4, 2013
3. Herbert A. HauptmanFebruary 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011
4. John FennJune 15, 1917 – December 10, 2010
5. Walter MunkOctober 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019
6. William Standish KnowlesJune 1, 1917 – June 13, 2012

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