• On his 80th birthday in 1997 it was renamed the Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology.
  • The Belgian scientist Christian de Duve was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for the discovery of the lysosome.
  • Christian de Duve. I was born on October 2nd 1917, in Thames-Ditton, near London. ... Christian de Duve died on 4 May 2013.
  • Christian de Duve was a Belgian cytologist and biochemist known for his discoveries about the internal workings of cells.
  • After receiving his MSc, Christian de Duve trained in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell at the Nobel Medical Institute in Stockholm for 18 months during 1946-1947.
  • Christian René de Duve was a Belgian cytologist and biochemist who discovered lysosomes (the digestive organelles of the cell) and peroxisomes...
  • Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve (1917-2013) won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his joint discovery of lysosomes.
  • On October 2 , 1917 , Belgian cytologist , biochemist and Nobel Laureate Christian de Duve was born.
  • His later years were mostly devoted to origin of life studies, which he admitted as still a speculative field. de Duve was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
  • Over the last two decades Christian de Duve has been investigating the origin and evolution of life and the structure and meaning of the universe.