Vincent Du Vigneaud
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 46 years ago |
Date of birth | May 18,1901 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Chicago |
Illinois | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 11,1978 |
Died | Ithaca |
New York | |
United States | |
Notable student | Sofia Simmonds |
Job | Biochemist |
Education | Carl Schurz High School |
University of Rochester | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research | |
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ID | 651495 |
Vincent Du Vigneaud Life story
Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone," a reference to his work on the cyclic peptide oxytocin.