Posted on Mon, Oct. 13, 2008
George Palade, 95, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell-biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, died Tuesday in San Diego.
Dr. Palade was born in Romania, earned his medical degree there, and came to the United States in 1946.
During the 1950s and '60s, he took advantage of new techniques to understand the cell structure, its function and chemistry. Using those techniques, he identified the function of, among other things, mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, and ribosomes, the protein-making machinery.
- AP
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