Christian de Duve (* 2 October 1917 in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain) is a Belgian biochemist.

De Duves parents, who originated from Belgium, had fled during the First World War to England and returned 1920 with it to Antwerp. 1941 it locked its medicine study in lions with the doctor title.

After study stays in Stockholm and Washington he became 1951 professor in lions. He discovered two new cell components: the Lysosomen, vesicle, where hydrolytic enzymes are, which diminish defective or become redundant Zellorganelle or from outside of the cell in Nahrungsvakuolen taken up materials, as well as the Peroxisomen, which have likewise a decontamination function.

1962 he became a professor at the institute for skirt skin he in New York, where Albert Claude accomplished the first electron microscopic research at cells into the 1940er years and where George Emil Palade was active.

it, together with Claude and Palade, received 1974 the Nobelpreis for physiology or medicine for its investigations for the structure and function of the cell. In the same year it created international Institut for cell and molecular pathology (ICP) in Brussels, in whose line it is involved until today.

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