de Duve

/ də dyːv /

noun

1. Christian. born 1917, Belgian biochemist, who discovered lysosomes: shared the Nobel prize (1974) for his work in cell biology

Example Sentences

Nottingham Trent University students Laura Puttock and Emma de Duve said they were "absolutely gutted".

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To potentially use this group of microbes as “a living antibiotic, we need to know how it grows,” said Terrens Saaki, a microbiologist studying predatory bacteria at the de Duve Institute in Belgium.

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Could it be, in the words of Nobel laureate Christian de Duve, a “cosmic imperative?”

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The word 'autophagy' — from the Greek for 'self-eating' — was coined in 1963 by the Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve, who saw how cells were breaking down their parts inside a waste-processing sac that he called a 'lysosome'.

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Life on a young Earth could imply that life is a routine development in the universe, and could be, as Nobel laureate Christian de Duve put it, a "cosmic imperative."

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