biography
| name: |
Palade, George E(mil)
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pronunciation:
[palad]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912– )
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| biography:
| Cell biologist, born in Iasi, NE Romania. He trained as a doctor in Bucharest, and was professor of anatomy there until he moved to the USA in 1946, where he became a US citizen in 1952. He worked under Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1946–72), and from 1972 headed cell biology at Yale Medical School. His work on the fine structure of cells as revealed by electron microscopy led him in 1956 to discover the small organelles within cells, called ribosomes, in which RNA synthesizes protein. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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