biography
pronunciation:
[klohd, klawd]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1983)
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| biography:
| US cell biologist, born in Longlier, Belgium. He performed cellular research in Europe (1928–9), then joined the Rockefeller Institute (now university) (1929–72). A citizen of both Belgium and the USA, he concurrently directed the Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels (1948–72), and was a professor at the Université Libre, Brussels (1948–69). Considered the founder of modern cell biology, he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his many pioneering contributions. He devised the differential centrifugation technique to separate cell components, identified the Rous sarcoma virus from chicken tumours as an RNA virus, discovered the cell organelles known as mitochondria and also the endoplasmic recticulum, and was the first to use electron microscopy in cellular research. |
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