Christian de Duve is a Swiss biochemist whose research into the structure of living cells led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973. A fellow of the Royal Society, his work has been described as "one of the most important achievements of 20th-century biology" by Nicholas Wade, editor of The New York Times Magazine. Christian de Duve was born in Geneva on September 16, 1918. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Geneva in 1939, he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
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He was an assistant professor at Columbia University from 1945 to 1948 before moving to Switzerland. He was a professor at the University of Zurich until his retirement in 1978. He continued working at Rockefeller until his death on January 24, 2012.