Nobel prize winner Christian de Duve. From insulin to lysosomes.

After the fifties Until the beginning of the fifties his research work concentrated upon insulin and glucose, focusing, during the last two thirds of his scientific curriculum, on certain particular features of cellular biology. While studying the enzymatic aspect of carbohydrate metabolism, de Duve separated and analysed different cell components and discovered two new ones: the lysosomes in 1955 and shortly thereafter the peroxysomes. In 1960 he obtained the Francqui Prize, Belgium’s most prestigious prize for science. In 1962 he was appointed professor at the Rockefeller Institute of New York.