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Albert Claude

1899 - 1983

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Albert Claude (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ klod]; 24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Claude is the 40th most popular biologist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Biologist.

Albert Claude is most famous for his work with the element uranium, which led to the discovery of plutonium.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Albert Claude ranks 40 out of 1,097Before him are Francis Crick, George Smith, Trofim Lysenko, Barbara McClintock, John Edward Gray, and Rachel Carson. After him are Christian de Duve, Karl von Frisch, Ada Yonath, Richard Henderson, Peter Simon Pallas, and Harald zur Hausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Albert Claude ranks 17Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Humphrey Bogart, Macfarlane Burnet, Francis Poulenc, Paul-Henri Spaak, and László Bíró. After him are Iskander Mirza, Fred Astaire, Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Béla Guttmann. Among people deceased in 1983, Albert Claude ranks 9Before him are Garrincha, Buckminster Fuller, Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Leopold III of Belgium, and Hergé. After him are Felix Bloch, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, John Vorster, Tennessee Williams, and Benigno Aquino Jr..

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Albert Claude ranks 54 out of 1,190Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), Victor Horta (1861), and Julio Cortázar (1914). After him are Samo (600), Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), Pepin of Landen (585), Adolphe Sax (1814), Simon Stevin (1548), and Henry van de Velde (1863).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among biologists born in Belgium, Albert Claude ranks 2Before him are Jules Bordet (1870). After him are Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), George Albert Boulenger (1858), Edouard Van Beneden (1846), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), Marie-Anne Libert (1782), and Peter Piot (1949).