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December 11, 1978 (77 years old)
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Taurus
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Vincent Du Vigneaud
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.
BornMay 18, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA
DiedDecember 11, 1978, White Plains, New York, USA
NationalityUnited States
FieldsOrganic chemistry, Peptide synthesis
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University, George Washington University, Cornell University
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Rochester
ThesisThe Sulfur of Insulin (1927)
Known forsynthesis of oxytocin and vasopressin
InfluencedPanayotis Katsoyannis, Iphigenia Photaki
Notable awardsAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1948), Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1955), Willard Gibbs Award (1956)

About Vincent Du Vigneaud

Biologist Vincent Du Vigneaud was born on May 18, 1901 in Illinois, United States (He dies at the age of 77, on December 11, 1978).

For isolating, identifying, and synthesizing oxytocin, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. He worked for a long time studying sulfur, proteins, and peptides.

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Vincent Du Vigneaud before becoming famous

Vincent Du Vigneaud was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1901 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Ox (牛).

He went to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to study chemistry.

Achievement of Vincent Du Vigneaud

During his time at the University of Illinois in 1930, he was a member of the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity.

Vincent Du Vigneaud's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In 1924, he married Zella Zon Ford, with whom he remained married for nearly fifty years.

Vincent Du Vigneaud Collabed with

Four years after fellow American chemist Chemist Glenn Seaborg, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Glenn T. Seaborg (1912 - 1999) (Chemist)
Glenn T. Seaborg (1912 - 1999)

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