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George Emil Palade: charismatic virtuoso of cell biology

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology volume 3, pages 871–876 (2002)Cite this article

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George Palade has created, shared and passed on a multidisciplinary view of the functional organization, biogenesis and dynamics of organelles. His open-mindedness and tenacity, along with his rigour and sense of intellectual elegance, have been remarkable. This focus on the logic of organelles defined a crucial turning point in biomedical science. The following article sketches Palade's research, as part of a larger community that flourished after the Second World War.

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Figure 1: Portraits.
Figure 2: Hepatocyte membrane differentiation.
Figure 3: Microdomains of the capillary endothelium.
Figure 4: Representatives of the Palade 'ensemble'.
Figure 5: Photographs from the Palade Symposium in La Jolla (March 25, 1999).

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