Christian de Duve

Christian de Duve born in 1917, in England is a Belgian Médecin which accepted the Nobel Prize of medicine in 1974.

Biography

Graduate in medicine of the UCL in 1941 and chemistry (UCL) in 1946, it carries out simultaneously a career of teacher and researcher within the catholic Université of Leuwen and with the Institut Rockefeller of New York. Its research on the cellular structures opened new ways in Biochimie and Génétique. It was rewarded for its discoveries. It describes the first time the Lysosome in 1955. It divided the Nobel Prize of physiology medicine with Albert Claude and George Emil Palade.

The same year one owes him the creation of the Institute of pathologies molecular and cellular, installed on the campus of Leuwen-in-Woluwe.

Humanistic, it in particular signed, with other prizes winner of the Nobel Prize, a call asking that a delegation of the Committee of the Rights of the Child of UNO returns visit to a child Tibetan under house arrest since 1995 in China, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized like 11th Panchen LAMA by the 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. It currently directs the cellular International institute of pathology to Brussels.

October 13rd, 2007, during the governmental crisis known as " blue orange " , De Duve signed with several French-speaking and Dutch-speaking Belgian scientists an open letter requiring of the negotiators blue orange to give up the project of certain Flemish formations to regionalize the Belgian scientific policy. De Duve and its co-signatories wanted the maintenance of a federal scientific policy " strong, coherent and intégrée" and assert a " refinancing significatif" of all the activities of this sector.

At the time of its 90ème birthday in October 2007, a dinner of official reception was organized, in the presence of the Astrid princess, of prince Alexandre and the Lea princess of Belgium.

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