Born: 1917-10-02 in Thames Ditton, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: Belgian biochemist and cytologist (1917–2013)
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. In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis on a single occasion.
Awarded on: 1974-10-10
"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"
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