Dr. George Palade dies at 95; UC San Diego Nobel laureate

Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 07:56 in Health & Medicine

Dr. George Palade, the UC San Diego Nobel laureate whose work isolating, imaging and identifying the function of minute organelles within cells prompted the Nobel committee to label him and his co-winners the fathers of cell biology, died Tuesday at his home in Del Mar, Calif., after a long illness. He was 95.

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