Peter Agre – An American chemist who won a Nobel Prize for discovering cellular aquaporins. Christian de Duve – Shared the Nobel Prize in 1974 "for describing the structure and function of organelles in biological cells" George Emil Palade – Shared the Nobel Prize in 1974 "for describing the structure and function of organelles in biological cells" Ira Mellman – an American cell biologist who discovered endosomes.