Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
A researcher who helped unlock the mysteries of the cell, Dr. Christian de Duve shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess.