Christian De Duve

CHRISTIAN DE DUVE d2013. Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade ("for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"). In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such as autophagy / endocytosis and exocytosis in a single occasion. He died in Belgium aged 95 on May 4th 2013