George E. Palade Net Worth

George E. Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist who, along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, was one of the co-recipients of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Born in Romania to a professor father and a teacher mother, Palade received his M.D. in 1940 from the Carol Davila School of Medicine in Bucharest and eventually moved to the United States to do postdoctoral research. He became acquainted with Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the two men worked together for some time. Palade is considered to be "the most influential cell biologist ever" for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which paved the way for the development of modern molecular cell biology. He performed many studies, using electron microscope, to examine the internal organization of such cell structures as ribosomes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, and the Golgi apparatus. His contribution to the development of the technique called cell fractionation was highly acclaimed and played a vital role in the development of modern molecular cell biology.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it?	Cell Biologist
Birth Day	November 19, 1912
Birth Place	Iași, Romania, Romanian
Age	108 YEARS OLD
Died On	October 8, 2008(2008-10-08) (aged 95)\nDel Mar, California, United States
Birth Sign	Sagittarius
Citizenship	United States and Romania
Alma mater	Carol Davila School of Medicine
Known for	Ribosomes Rough ER
Spouse(s)	Marilyn Farquhar
Awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1966) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1967) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1970) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974) E. B. Wilson Medal (1981) ForMemRS (1984) National Medal of Science (1986)
Fields	Cell biology
Institutions	Rockefeller University Yale University University of California, San Diego
Notable students	Günter Blobel

💰 Net worth

George E. Palade, a renowned Cell Biologist hailing from Romania, is said to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M by 2024. Palade's contributions to the field of cell biology, particularly his discoveries on the structure and function of organelles within cells, have greatly influenced scientific research. His notable achievements include the identification of ribosomes and the development of new techniques for studying cellular processes. Through his groundbreaking work, Palade has left an indelible mark on the scientific community, earning him both recognition and financial success.

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Famous Quotes:

"In the 1960s, I continued the work on the secretory process using in parallel or in succession two different approaches. The first relied exclusively on cell fractionation, and was developed in collaboration with Philip Siekevitz, Lewis Joel Greene, Colvin Redman, David Sabatini and Yutaka Tashiro; it led to the characterization of the zymogen granules and to the discovery of the segregation of secretory products in the cisternal space of the endoplasmic reticulum. The second approach relied primarily on radioautography, and involved experiments on intact animals or pancreatic slices which were carried out in collaboration with Lucien Caro and especially James Jamieson. This series of investigations produced a good part of our current ideas on the synthesis and intracellular processing of proteins for export. A critical review of this line of research is presented in the Nobel Lecture.".

Biography/Timeline

1912

George Emil Palade was born on November 19, 1912 in Iași, Romania; his Father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Iași and his mother was a high school Teacher. George E. Palade received his M.D. in 1940 from the Carol Davila School of Medicine in Bucharest.

1946

Palade was a member of the faculty at Carol Davila University until 1946, when he went to the United States to do postdoctoral research. There, he joined Prof. Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

1952

In 1952, Palade became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute (1958–1973), and was a professor at Yale University Medical School (1973–1990), and University of California, San Diego (1990–2008). At UCSD, Palade was Professor of Medicine in Residence (Emeritus) in the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, as well as a Dean for Scientific Affairs (Emeritus), in the School of Medicine at La Jolla, California.

1974

In 1970, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Renato Dulbecco winner of 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries concerning the functional organization of the cell that were seminal events in the development of modern cell biology", related to his previous research carried out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. His Nobel lecture, delivered on December 12, 1974, was entitled: "Intracellular Aspects of the Process of Protein Secretion", published in 1992 by the Nobel Prize Foundation, He was elected an Honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1975. In 1981, Palade became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. In 1988 he was also elected an Honorary Member of the American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (ARA).

1986

Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986, and was previously elected a Member of the US National Academy of Science in 1961. He was also elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1984.

2009

One notes also that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2009 to Drs. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome", discovered by Dr. George Emil Palade.