George Emil Palade

George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade
	Palade on a 2021 Romanian stamp
Born	George Emil Palade; November 19, 1912; Iași, Romania
Died	October 8, 2008 (aged 95); Del Mar, California, U.S.
Nationality	Romanian, American
Alma mater	Carol Davila School of Medicine
Known for	Ribosomes; Rough ER;
Spouses	Irina Malaxa (m. 1941; died 1969); Marilyn Farquhar (m. 1970);
Awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1966); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1967); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1970); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974); E. B. Wilson Medal (1981); ForMemRS (1984); National Medal of Science (1986);
	Scientific career
Fields	Cell biology
Institutions	New York University; Rockefeller University; Yale University; University of California, San Diego;
Notable students	Günter Blobel

George Emil Palade ForMemRS HonFRMS (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe eˈmil paˈlade] ^ⓘ; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.

Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986, and was previously elected a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1961. In 1968 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (HonFRMS) and in 1984 he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).

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