George Emil Palade (redirected from George Palade)

Palade, George Emil 

Born Nov. 19, 1912, in Iaşi, Rumania. American biologist and cytologist. Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Palade graduated from the University of Bucharest. He worked at the Institute of Anatomy in Bucharest until 1946, when he emigrated to the United States. He was head of the department of cell biology of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1946 to 1973. In 1973 he became a professor and department head at Yale University School of Medicine.

Palade’s main works have dealt with electron microscopy of subcellular structures and their function in cell biology. He made a thorough study of the ultrastructure of mitochondria. In 1953 he became the first to describe ribosomes.

Palade was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1974 with A. Claude and C. de Duve. Palade is a foreign member of the Leopoldina German Academy of Naturalists.

WORKS

“The Fine Structure of Mitochondria.” Anatomical Record, 1952, vol. 114, no. 3.