George E. Palade

Awards

1. 1966

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For contributions to the electron microscopy of biological materials.

2. 1967

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   In recognition of his many contributions to the development of methods of preparing cells and tissues so that subcellular components could be adequately preserved and visualized in the electron microscope, and to his pioneering use of these methods to develop knowledge about structure and function of cellular components.

3. 1974

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell