Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983)

Albert Claude

Albert Claude 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.

Born

1899

August 24

Died

1983

Era

1890s

Country

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About

Albert, in brief

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Key dates

1899 Born
1983 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

367 Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
394 The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
410 The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
1185 Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.

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The world in 1983

When Albert departed

april 12 Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
april 25 Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
april 25 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
april 28 The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

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Also born on August 24

Agnes Marshall 1852– English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef (died 1905) Andrew Brunette 1973– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986 Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986) Peder Griffenfeld 1635–1699 Danish lawyer and politician (died 1699) Reggie Miller 1965– American basketball player and sportscaster René Lévesque 1922–1987 Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (died 1987) Stephen Fry 1957– English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter Vladimir Masorin 1947– Russian admiral

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1899

Alfred Blalock 1899– American surgeon and academic (died 1964) Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980 English-American director and producer (born 1899) Andrei Platonov 1899–1951 Russian author and poet (died 1951) Andrija Artuković 1899–1988 Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (born 1899) Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Bruce Catton 1899–1978 American historian and journalist (born 1899) Chief Dan George 1899–1981 Canadian actor (died 1981) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899– Romanian politician (died 1938) DeFord Bailey 1899– American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (died 1982)

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