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Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve (1917-2013) was best known for his work on understanding and categorising subcellular organelles. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for his joint discovery of lysosomes, the subcellular organelles that digest macromolecules and deal with ingested bacteria. [Listener: Peter Newmark; date recorded: 2005]
TRANSCRIPT: To tell you the truth, I'm... I'm rather embarrassed by this whole exercise, I thought it would be fun and then somehow, as the date neared, I got more and more uncomfortable. It's not that I... I'm not a modest person by any means, but... it seems to me that I'm not the kind of person that people want to know about, you know, I'm not a genius, I didn't invent relativity, or discover relativity, I didn't discover the double helix, I'm not a colourful personality like Francis Crick or Jim Watson... or Richard Feynman and so on. So, I'm just a rather ordinary person with a slightly out of ordinary experience.
