claude

noun

1. Albert,1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
2. Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

noun

1. Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

1. Belgian-born American biologist who was among the first to use the electron microscope for biological research. He shared a 1974 Nobel Prize for developing methods of separating and analyzing cell components.