Vincent du Vigneaud

Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation, structural identification and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide oxytocin. Vigneaud graduated from Schurz High School in 1918. He started studying chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was influenced by lectures of Carl Shipp Marvel. After receiving his M.S. in 1924 he joined ... more

Date of birth:

  • May 18, 1901

Date of death:

  • Dec 11, 1978 (age 77 years)

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Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 1955
  • 1948
  • For his basic studies of transmethylation as essential to animal nutrition; for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of biotin and penicillin.
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