Albert
Claude was
born in Belgium in 1898. A cell biochemist
he emigrated to the United States where he worked for the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research (1929-49). In 1974 Claude won the Nobel
Prize for his research on cell structure and function. Claude was
the first to isolate a cancer virus by biochemical technique, and
he discovered that RNA, a nucleic acid, was the major component. Albert
Claude died in 1983.
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