What is Ewald Weibel?
[[File:ERW portrait 2009.jpg|thumb|Ewald R. Weibel]] '''Ewald R. Weibel''' [[FRMS|HonFRMS]] (5 March 1929 – 19 February 2019) was a Swiss biologist. He was director of the Institute of Anatomy at the [[University of Bern]]. He was known for his works with the [[Weibel-Palade body|Weibel-Palade bodies]], which are named after him and his Romanian American colleague [[George Emil Palade]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Weibel ER, Palade GE |title=New cytoplasmic components in arterial endothelia |journal=J. Cell Biol. |volume=23 |issue= 1|pages=101–12 |date=October 1964 |pmid=14228505 |pmc=2106503 |doi=10.1083/jcb.23.1.101}}</ref> Weibel was awarded the [[Marcel Benoist Prize]] in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://marcel-benoist.ch/en/current-laureate/past-laureates/|title=Marcel Benoist Prize: past laureates|access-date=31 October 2017}}</ref> In 1981, Weibel became a foreign [[List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physiology and pharmacology)|member]] of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Weibel_Ewald_R_D.pdf|work=Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften|title=Curriculum Vitae Prof. Ewald R. Weibel|access-date=31 October 2017|language=de}}</ref> In 1998, he was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Weibel_Ewald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Weibel_Ewald |title=Ewald Weibel |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> In 2000, Weibel was elected as a foreign honorary member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/peerCollaboration/profile.aspx?c=psa&q=Weibel|title=Professor Ewald Rudolf Weibel|work=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=31 October 2017|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107023730/https://www.amacad.org/peerCollaboration/profile.aspx?c=psa&q=Wei