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life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions,...

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The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resourc...

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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...

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The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate ch...

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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scie...

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Christian de Duve

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Born: 1917-10-02

Died: 2013-05-04

Christian de Duve (born 2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) is a Belgian cytologist and biochemist. In 1960, De Duve was awarded the Francqui Prize for Biological and Medical Sciences. He was awarded the shared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974. His later years have been mostly devoted to origin of life studies.More