Dr. Palade won the Nobel Prize in 1974.

George Emil Palade (born in Iasi, November 19, 1912) is a Romanian cell biologist. In 1974, he shared with two colleagues the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell. George Emil Palade Portrait public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... George Emil Palade Portrait public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Map of Romania showing Iasi Iaşi (also known as Jassy) is a city and a county (see Iasi (county)) in north-eastern Romania, in the historic region of Moldavia. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology, from the Greek kytos, container) is an academic discipline which studies cells. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ...

George Palade received a M.D. in 1940 from the School of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, Romania. He was a member of the faculty of that school until 1945 when he went to the United States for postdoctoral studies. There, he joined Prof. Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In 1952, Palade became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was a professor at the Rockefeller Institute (1958-1973), Yale University Medical School (1973-1990), and University of California, San Diego (1990-present). 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... University of Bucharest University of Bucharest is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Albert Claude (August 24, 1899 – May 22, 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. ... Rockefeller University is a small private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th street on York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ...

He won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for describing the structure and function of organelles in cells 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... In cell biology, an organelle is one of several structures with specialized functions, suspended in the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell. ... Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green). ...

In 1986, he received the National Medal of Science, USA. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science, also called the Presidential Medal of Science, is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social...

At the Rockefeller Institute, Palade used electron microscopy to study the internal organization of such cell structures as mitochondria, chloroplasts, the Golgi apparatus, and others. His most important discovery was related to ribosomes. The electron microscope is a microscope that can magnify very small details with high resolving power due to the use of electrons rather than light to scatter off material, magnifying at levels up to 500,000 times. ... In cell biology, a mitochondrion is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes. ... The inside of a chloroplast Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and eukaryotic algae that conduct photosynthesis. ... Figure 1: Ribosome structure indicating small subunit (A) and large subunit (B). ...

His name has become attached to the Weibel-Palade bodies (a storage organelle unique to the endothelium, containing von Willebrand factor and various proteins) which he described together with the Swiss anatomist Ewald R. Weibel (Weibel ER, Palade GE. New cytoplasmic components in arterial endothelia. J Cell Biol 1964;23:101-112). An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, whose name has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery, or other item. ... In physiology, Weibel-Palade bodies are organelles in the endothelium, the cells lining all blood vessels. ... The endothelium is the layer of thin, flat cells that lines the interior surface of blood vessels, forming an interface between circulating blood in the lumen and the rest of the vessel wall. ... Von Willebrand factor is a blood glycoprotein of the coagulation system. ...

External links

• Autobiography written in 1974 for the Nobel Prize
• Professor Palade's current webpage at University of California, San Diego