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RefNoEC/1988/42
Previous numbersCert XXII, 139
LevelItem
TitleDuve, Christian Rene Marie Joseph de, Viscount: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date1982
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to Foreign Membership. Citation typed
CitationChristian de Duve identified and characterised two of the most important organelles of eukaryotic cells: the lysosomes and the peroxisomes, the former the main sites of intracellular digestion, the latter the sites of many oxidative processes centred around hydrogen peroxide and of key metabolic reactions involved in gluconeogenesis. The combination of biochemical and anatomical procedures founded on cellular fractionation that underlies these discoveries is especially notable.
de Duve is still active in scientific research and is Director of the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Brussels.
de Duve is an honorary member of the Biochemical Society from which he has received the Harden Medal and in 1974 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and George Palade.
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NA8342Duve; Christian Rene Marie Joseph de (1917 - 2013); Viscount1917 - 2013
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