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Christian de Duve
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve
(2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a 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 or 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 the scientific names such as
autophagy
,
endocytosis
, and
exocytosis
in a single occasion.
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