Ewald Weibel

Ewald R. Weibel

Ewald R. Weibel is a Swiss biologist on the faculty of the University of Bern. He was one of the first scientist to describe the endothelial organelles Weibel-Palade bodies, which are named after him and his Romanian American colleague George Emil Palade.^[1]

In 1981, Weibel became a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1974.

References

1. Weibel ER, Palade GE (October 1964). "New cytoplasmic components in arterial endothelia". J. Cell Biol. 23 (1): 101–12. doi:10.1083/jcb.23.1.101. PMC 2106503. PMID 14228505.