Lucien Massart (1908–1988) was a specialist in the animal and plant

enzymology Enzymes () are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products. A ...

. He was a professor and in 1957 was awarded the

Francqui Prize The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...

on Biological and Medical Sciences. In 1951, together with Edouard J. Bigwood, Jean Brachet,

Christian de Duve Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared ...

Marcel Florkin Marcel Florkin (Liège, 15 August 1900 – 3 May 1979) was a Belgium, Belgian biochemist. Florkin was graduated as a Doctor in Medicine and became a professor of biochemistry at the University of Liège. In 1951, he was the initiator of the Belgi ...

, Paul Putzeys, Laurent Vandendriessche and Claude Lièbecq, he was one of the founders of the

Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) is a Belgian non-profit organization, concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. The BMB was created, based on an initiative of Marcel Florkin, so a Belgian society could join ...

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