George Palade

GEORGE PALADE d2008. Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever". In 1974, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology. The most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum which he first described in 1955. He died in California aged 95 on October 8th 2008