Claude

[ klawd; French klohd ]

noun
  1. Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.

  2. Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

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Claude

/ (klɔːd, French klod) /


noun
  1. Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

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