Albert Claude

Albert Claude ( born August 24, 1899 in Longlier; † 22 May 1983; Brussels) was a Belgian researcher who mainly focused on the cell biology. In 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Claude finished his medical studies in 1928 Liège and worked at the Institute for Cancer Research in Berlin. In 1929 he moved to the USA where he worked 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 out. Since 1942 he was also involved in electron microscopic research, an instrument that has not been used until then in biology.

Although he had in 1941 received U.S. citizenship, he returned back to Belgium in 1949 and had subsequently held professorships in both New York and lions.

In 1974 he received along with George Emil Palade and Christian de Duve Nobel Prize in Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell ".