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George Emil Palade
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George Emil Palade was born on November 19, 1912, and died on October 7, 2008. He was recognized as a Nobel Laureate, receiving one Nobel Prize. His name appears in the Nobel Prize records under the designation George E. Palade.
His work is included in several institutional collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1974
“for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emil
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Iași
- Place of death
- Del Mar
- Spouse
- Marilyn Farquhar
- Occupation
- physicist
- Languages spoken
- Romanian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Field of work
- cell biology
- Image
- RO033-16.jpg
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- date of death
- 2008-10-07
- date of birth
- 1912-11-19
- Commons category
- George Emil Palade
- name in native language
- George Emil Palade
- place of burial
- Rocky Mountains
- interested in
- cytology
- P8168
- Famous Music
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Encyclopedic overview
George Emil Palade ForMemRS HonFRMS ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe eˈmil paˈlade] ; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.
Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986, and was previously elected a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1961. In 1968 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (HonFRMS) and in 1984 he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).
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